[Dws-News] Bhavana Society Forest Retreat needs your help

[Suzanne Kapusta]

Friends,

Please note that the Bhavana Society Forest Retreat, founded by Bhante Gunaratana, is in need of help.  Click on the link below to sign the petition if after reading their plight, you wish to help.

Help Protect Bhavana - Petition
Dear friends of the Bhavana Society Forest Monastery in West Virginia 

The Allegheny Power Company has been planning to build a new 500KV transmission line (TrAIL) to pass by within a quarter of a mile from the Bhavana Forest Monastery. To make matters worse, we have recently learned that they are now proposing an alternate route to avoid the auto junkyard. This new route would severely encroach on the monastery property where the mens kutis are located. Basically this would amount to sacrificing a monastery in favor of a junkyard. Apart from the health concerns due to close proximity to electromagnetic radiation, this would seriously infringe on the sanctity of our place of worship and the integrity of our contemplative way of life. We protest the disfigurement of a beautiful forest monastery and spiritual refuge in order to save a junkyard. We strongly urge the Power Company to move the power line route so it would traverse the center of the junkyard property, so as to keep the Bhavana monastery intact and relatively secluded from the ugly eyesore which the wide swath of the power line will create.  

Please sign the petition which we have created to protest this proposed encroachment by clicking on the petition link on this page, and if you would like to share this link with anyone, please do so:  

http://www.bhavanasociety.org/main/new/test/

Suzanne Kapusta
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