Kentucky religious orders refuse to allow gas pipeline on their property

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Two Roman Catholic communities, which collectively own more than 3,000 acres in Central Kentucky, are refusing to permit access to their historic properties for a proposed underground pipeline that would transport flammable, pressurized natural-gas liquids across the state.

The Sisters of Loretto in Marion County and the Abbey of Gethsemani in Nelson County have denied representatives of the pipeline developers permission to survey their property and said they won’t consent to participating in the project.

The pipeline is being proposed by a partnership of the Tulsa-based Williams Co., an energy-infrastructure company, and Boardwalk Pipeline Partners, which oversees a network of natural-gas-related pipelines and operations.

The partnership hasn’t determined the final route yet, but it maintains it has the right to obtain easements on properties through eminent domain under Kentucky law, even if the owners don’t want to participate.

http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20130801/NEWS01/308020044/Religious-orders-Sisters-Loretto-Abbey-Gethsemani-deny-access-land-gas-pipeline?nclick_check=1

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