UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 8-K
CURRENT REPORT
Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): April 16, 2009 (April 16, 2009)
NEW JERSEY RESOURCES CORPORATION
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
| New Jersey | 1-8359 | 22-2376465 | ||
| (State or other Jurisdiction of Incorporation) | (Commission File Number) | (IRS Employer Identification No.) |
| 1415 Wyckoff Road Wall, New Jersey | 07719 | |
| (Address of Principal Executive Offices) | (Zip Code) |
Registrant’s telephone number, including area code:(732) 938-1480
| (Former name or former address if changed since last report.) |
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Item 8.01. Other Events.
On April 16, 2009, New Jersey Natural Gas Company (“NJNG”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of New Jersey Resources Corporation (“NJR”), received approval from the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities for its Accelerated Infrastructure Program (“AIP”). NJNG announced the approval of the AIP in the press release dated April 16, 2009, attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1 and incorporated by reference herein. NJNG also published the Investor Fact Sheet entitled “Summary of Accelerated Infrastructure Program” attached hereto as Exhibit 99.2 and incorporated by reference herein.
Forward-Looking Statements
This filing contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. NJR cautions readers that the assumptions forming the basis for forward-looking statements include many factors that are beyond NJR’s ability to control or estimate precisely, such as estimates of future market conditions and the behavior of other market participants. Other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the company’s expectations include, but are not limited to, weather, economic conditions and demographic changes in NJNG’s service territory, rate of customer growth, volatility of natural gas commodity prices and its impact on customer usage and NJR Energy Services operations, changes in rating agency requirements and/or credit ratings and their effect on availability and cost of capital to the company, conditions in the credit markets and their potential impact on the company’s access to capital and borrowing costs, increased interest costs resulting from failures in the market for auction rate securities, the impact of the company’s risk management efforts, including commercial and wholesale credit risks, changes in the costs of providing pension and post-employment benefits to current and former employees, the company’s ability to obtain governmental approvals, property rights and/or financing for the construction, development and operation of its non-regulated energy investments, risks associated with the management of the company’s joint ventures and partnerships, the impact of regulation (including the regulation of rates), the outcome of any future base rate cases, fluctuations in energy-related commodity prices, customer conversions, other marketing efforts, 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, an adequate number of appropriate counterparties, sufficient liquidity in the energy trading market, the disallowance of recovery of environmental-related expenditures, environmental and other litigation and other uncertainties, the effects and impacts of inflation, change in accounting pronouncements issued by the appropriate standard setting bodies and terrorist attacks or threatened attacks on energy facilities or unrelated energy companies. NJR does not, by including this paragraph, assume any obligation to review or revise any particular forward-looking statement referenced herein in light of future events. More detailed information about these factors is set forth under the heading “Risk Factors” in NJR’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) including its most recent Form 10-K dated November 24, 2008 and 10-Q dated February 6, 2009.
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Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits
(c) Exhibits.
| Exhibit Number | Exhibit | |
99.1 | Press Release dated April 16, 2009. | |
| 99.2 | Investor Fact Sheet dated April 2009 |
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SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
NEW JERSEY RESOURCES CORPORATION
Date: April 16, 2009
By: /s/ Glenn C. Lockwood
Glenn C. Lockwood
Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer
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EXHIBIT INDEX
| Exhibit | ||
| Number | Description | |
| 99.1 | Press Release dated April 16, 2009. | |
| 99.2 | Investor Fact Sheet dated April 2009 |
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