Residents still fighting clear-cutting along corridor
He said he was able to convince those workers, from ITC, to just trim the trees, but has had problems with the company, which took over the lines from Edison, since that time. He said the company has notified him that it will be cutting down all of the trees in his backyard, along with “a bunch on the road right of way, which is a road behind our house.”
He said it took repeated phone calls and letters to the president of ITC before he was provided any legal documentation showing the company had rights to his land, and now that has come with a threatening letter from an attorney.
Knight said he’s received a letter from Dykema Gossett PLLC, attorneys in Bloomfield Hills that are representing ITC. The letter “said essentially that they have the right to come in here, and if we interfere, we’ll be trespassing on our own property,” Knight said.
I don’t know much about this. It just caught my eye because I think protecting the environment is mostly a collection of small battles like this one.