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Friday, August 2, 2013

*Update* Nuns and Monks Say "No" to Gas Pipeline



Defiant Nuns and Monks Refuse to give up Kentucky Land for Gas Pipeline


“We’ve been on this property since 1824,” said Sister Maria Visse, service coordinator for the Sisters of Loretto. “We feel entrusted with this (land). It’s a gift. It’s not a commodity. 

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It began in the church.  Entire communities poured into houses of worship to receive bonus checks in exchange for signing away their mineral rights.  The churches conducting these signing parties for a community often received sizable bonus checks. Then the problems surfaced ~ emission events,  explosions, ~ even deaths.  As these dangers are now evident, have we finally come full circle?  Perhaps these enlightened servants of God will eventually be our grace and salvation.   Amen. 

Show your support to the Sisters of Loretto by signing this petition.  Thank you!

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