Energy Digital
2 Jul 2012
Natural gas drillers explore controversial grounds
To frack or not to frack in cemeteries, that’s the new question natural gas companies are asking loved ones of the dead. Deep underground, ancient shale formations hold lucrative quantities of natural gas in places like Ohio, Colorado and Mississippi in veterans’ final resting places to parks, playgrounds, churches and residential back yards.
The shale boom, though good for the economy, has not only raised environmental concerns, but is now starting to dabble in questions of morality. Many fear that drilling activity would pollute peaceful places of mourning with noisy, smelly and unsightly industrial activity. But defenders argue the drilling would take place so deep that it wouldn’t disturb cemeteries, and would actually generate revenue to enhance the roads and grounds that surround them.
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