Favors Duhamel for House

To the editor:

I’m writing from House District 6, home to a rambling string of coal strip-mine endeavors that are radically changing our security and ways of life.

In the last month, my sleepy neighborhood has been turned into a thoroughfare for 13-ton gravel trucks building the new industrial road to Australian-owned coal leases.

We can now hear heavy equipment working 12 hours a day and suffer the impacts of their floodlights in our off-grid/off-road locale, not to mention the constant presence of their rent-a-cops.

Riversdale-hired personnel are trespassing on private land to access the mine site after our community was promised they would only use Fish Lake Road for employees and equipment.

We the people need someone we trust to stand up for our private property rights. Jamey Duhamel has promised to that for us.

Incumbent state Rep. Eric Feige was recently quoted as saying that 75 percent of Sutton residents are pro-coal. I don’t know where he got his numbers, but the recent election revealed the true story when more Sutton residents voted for Mark Mastellar than Larry DeVilbiss for borough mayor.

We who live in the midst of the developing mines can see the myriad of negative impacts, and it’s just a matter of time before voters who live farther from the epicenter of strip mining will understand how it is decimating our property values, jeopardizing our safe water/air and destroying our communities.

It’s time for a change — vote for Jamey Duhamel and bring common sense back to our district.

Lisa Stevenson

Chickaloon