A committee of the Catholic Diocese of Pueblo, Colo.,
surprised everyone, including Pueblo Bishop Arthur Tafoya, by
blasting the proposed Animas-La Plata water project as an
“environmental, economic and social bungle.”
The
Human Development Commission of the diocese also asked, “Who is
responsible for the continuing agitation to support a project so
badly conceived? We wonder who the beneficiaries are. We can
surmise their identity from those who lobby heavily to keep the
project going.”
A main supporter of the project,
Durango attorney Sam Maynes, told the Grand Junction Daily
Sentinel, “That thing is full of nothing but Sierra Club propaganda
and outright distortions of fact. Now they want to say they’ve got
God on their side.” Bishop Tafoya, caught between his commission
and outraged project supporters, is not sure whose side he is on.
“He told the Sentinel, “I’m not ready to make a statement for or
against.”
Meanwhile, in Washington, D.C.,
Representative Thomas Petri, R-Wis., gave his “porker of the week”
award to those who back the “behemoth, wasteful and environmentally
unsound” project.
* Ed
Marston
This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Dam project called a “bungle’ and a “porker’.
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