Gas under cemeteries raises money, moral questions

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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Loved ones aren't the only thing buried in the 122-year-old Lowellville Cemetery in eastern Ohio. Deep underground, locked in ancient shale formations, are lucrative quantities of natural gas.

Whether to drill for that gas is causing soul-searching as cemeteries - including veterans' final resting places in Colorado and Mississippi - join parks, playgrounds, churches and residential backyards among the ranks of places targeted in the nation's shale drilling boom.

Opponents say cemeteries are hallowed ground that shouldn't be sullied by drilling activity they worry will be noisy, smelly and unsightly. Defenders say the drilling is so deep that it doesn't disturb the cemetery and can generate revenue to enhance the roads and grounds.

"Most people don't like it," said 70-year-old Marilee Pilkington, who lives down the road from the cemetery in rural Poland Township and whose father, brother, nephew and niece are all buried there.

[a la izquierda]

1. Is nothing sacred?

Okay, besides the Almighty Dollar?
This is outrageous. I have no real urge to be buried, but I'd be seeing red if some polluting gas company was about to dig under my relatives' graves.
Cemeteries are for the living, not the dead.

[malaise]

2. Only the acquisition of wealth

nothing else

[Starry Messenger]

3. There's a line in the Manifesto about the forces of capital "nestling everywhere".

Boy, they weren't kidding.

Oh, here it it is:

"The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the whole surface of the globe. It must nestle everywhere, settle everywhere, establish connexions everywhere. KARL MARX, The Communist Manifesto"