To the Editor:

Regarding upcoming legislation about mining, let’s remind our stewards about the necessity of including neighbors’ property rights. Every house and neighborhood should be secure from ongoing constant machine and industrial mining noise.

We were against putting wind turbines on mountain ridges in Greenwood, Bethel, and elsewhere, owing to the density of noise pollution and its impact on people living below them. To have to listen to any loud noise in your neighborhood continually can be distressing.

Legislators and voters consider: Would you want your own household and neighborhood to be free from continual noise, unable to listen to the silence, or birdsong, or tree frogs around your house? For your children to hear you calling when they are out playing in the streams or woods?

Property rights yes! Do not let our local region forget to include this in our legislation. (Bethel etc.)

Ron and Susan Dorman

Bethel