A plea to prune more carefully

There are no words to describe the sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach as I walked into my house last night, looked out my kitchen window and saw the massacre that you caused behind my fence.

My house backs up to the Canadian National Railroad tracks, and as you have heard and read many times over, the rail traffic has quadrupled since CN took over from EJ&E. The only sound barrier that we had between our home and the railroad tracks were the trees that you have now randomly butchered.

You hired a subcontractor with no idea of what they were doing. What they did was top off the trees (literally cut off the tops tall stubs are all that remain) and remove the only foliage we had to protect ourselves.

When are you going to begin working with village communities and stop the unnecessary, brutal destruction of what Mother Nature so carefully produces?

It takes many, many years for trees to grow, heal and mend after your brutal attacks. Please stop. Think about what you are doing the next time you so carelessly hire a subcontractor to “prune” around power lines. The damage you cause is irreparable.

Richard O'Brien

Barrington