"Coal Mine to Go Around Cemetery - Black Beauty Axes Plans to Relocate Braner
Cemetery"
Excerpted from the 5/31/2000 Sullivan Daily Times:
Black Beauty Coal today cited "rightful respect" in "scratching its
plans" to
relocate Braner Cemetery in Jackson Township (Sullivan Co., Indiana),
according to company officials.
Company officials say they "took negative reactions into account" in
withdrawing the company's Petition to Disinter.
The case file in Sullivan Superior Court includes "objections from purported
family members and others from as far away as New Mexico on legal and moral
grounds."
A Black Beauty Coal official said, "Public opposition, coupled with input from
Sullivan Co. Commissioner Jim Pirtle, and Paul Ehret of the Indiana DNR, led
Black Beauty Coal to reconsider its plans for the cemetery."
Black Beauty Coal has directed its local legal counsel to withdraw its
Petition.
The company, which owns the property on which the cemetery is located, also
intends to file deed restrictions limiting the land's use to cemetery only.
The company will maintain a 100-foot buffer along all sides of the cemetery.
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