Nuns Oppose Fracking Pipeline by Building Chapel in Cornfield

The sisters of the Adorers of the Blood of Christ order own land in Lancaster County, Penn., that they consider sacred. 

Now Williams, an energy company, wants to run a gas pipeline through that land—and the nuns have constructed a chapel on the grounds, in the middle of a cornfield, to illustrate their protest against the plan. "We just wanted to symbolize, really, what is already there: This is holy ground," one sister tells the Washington Post. 

The chapel was consecrated July 9 in a service attended by more than 300 people, and others have come to pray and leave ribbons showing their solidarity since then. Williams wants to use the land for its Atlantic Sunrise pipeline, which will carry the natural gas extracted by fracking from the state's Marcellus shale region to other areas. The sisters' order is particularly concerned with environmental protection and activism.

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