The following is a copy of an email that was sent to Jack Schrier, Chairman and Eileen Swan, Executive Director of the Highland Council:

Dear Chairman Schrier & Director Swan,

The Highlands Council’s decision not to standby its previous ruling on the substation in Tewksbury makes a mockery of the legislation establishing the Council. The Highland Council has been entrusted with the responsibility to protect the environment and the historic fabric of the land governed by the Highland Master Plan. After ruling that the landscaping scheme presented by JCP&L for their substation on a scenic road was inadequate and not acceptable the Council has given into pressure and will defer to her sister agency, the DEP.

This is a gross betrayal of all of us who actively supported the Highlands Plan and its adoption for Tewksbury. We request that the Council do its job and rescind its decision to passively standby and be dictated to by the DEP and JCP&L. Anything less is to shirk its responsibility in the name of bureaucratic peace.

Dominick DePinto