Catholic cemetaries lease lots for gas drilling

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Catholic cemetaries lease lots for gas drilling

POSTED: Wednesday, August 18, 2010, 5:41 PM
Filed Under: FrackTrack | Marcellus Shale | News

What to say? The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review has said it all:

A Monroeville drilling company could tap natural gas beneath 15 cemeteries in Allegheny and Washington counties under a lease signed by the Catholic Cemeteries Association of the Diocese of Pittsburgh, the association's director said Tuesday.

The association leased nearly 1,060 acres of cemetery land in 2008 to Huntley & Huntley Inc., including the 200-acre Calvary Cemetery in Hazelwood, which City Councilman Doug Shields called "ground zero" in the debate over whether natural gas drilling should be permitted in Pittsburgh

In case you missed that last phrase: "the debate over whether natural gas drilling should be permitted in Pittsburgh," – it is, in fact a debate and a distinct possibility: Pittsburgh, unlike Philadelphia, is located on top of the Marcellus Shale and the drilling industry is moving in quickly to begin drilling within city limits.


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