Regarding Forward-Looking Statements Certain statements contained in this presentation are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements can also be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "may," "intend," "expect," or "continue" or comparable terminology and are made based upon management's expectations and beliefs concerning future developments and their potential effect upon New Jersey Resources (NJR or the Company). There can be no assurance that future developments will be in accordance with management's expectations or that the effect of future developments on the Company will be those anticipated by management. The Company cautions persons reading or hearing this presentation that the assumptions that form the basis for forward-looking statements regarding customer growth, financial condition, results of operations, cash flows, capital requirements, market risk and other matters for fiscal 2006 and thereafter include many factors that are beyond the Company's ability to control or estimate precisely, such as estimates of future market conditions, the behavior of other market participants and changes in the debt and equity capital markets. The factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from NJR's expectations include, but are not limited to, such things as weather and economic conditions, demographic changes in the New Jersey Natural Gas (NJNG) service territory, rate of NJNG customer growth, volatility of natural gas commodity prices, the impact of the Company's risk management efforts, including commercial and wholesale credit risks, conversion activity and other marketing efforts, labor costs, the actual energy usage patterns of NJNG's customers, the pace of deregulation of retail gas markets, access to adequate supplies of natural gas, the regulatory and pricing policies of federal and state regulatory agencies, changes due to legislation at the federal and state level, environmental and other litigation, the level of environmental expenditures, the disallowance of recovery of environmental remediation expenditures, other regulatory changes and changes in and levels of interest rates. While the Company periodically reassesses material trends and uncertainties affecting the Company's results of operations and financial condition in connection with its preparation of management's discussion and analysis of results of operations and financial condition contained in its Quarterly and Annual Reports, the Company does not, by including this statement, assume any obligation to review or revise any particular forward-looking statement referenced herein in light of future events. |