It looks like CenterPoint Energy is in a tree-cutting mood again:
Sugar Land’s First Colony is trying to save 200 Crape myrtle and Wax myrtle trees, which were planted along the sidewalks of Austin Parkway near Commonwealth.
CenterPoint Energy is threatening to cut down all these trees under its 70-foot transmission lines. Most are less than 10 feet tall. None are on the current list of what’s approved to grow under power lines.
Utilities have become more strict since last year’s blackout in the northeast was traced to trees tangling with lines in Ohio.
But these are nowhere close to each other and there is even 60 feet between the two.
“We’re not interested in being hard-nosed. We want to work with the communities. We have continued to work with the City of Sugar Land, Ms. Hall, and various homeowners associations out in Sugar Land and we will from now on,” said Mike Boone, CenterPoint Energy.
Reducing property values, raising rates, cutting down trees. This is an interesting public relations campaign CenterPoint Energy is in the middle of.
