- Flaming hypocrisy: Giant pipelines don't wash - Salt Lake Tribune Editorial
Utah Gov. Gary Herbert would probably like to take a firm stand against the cockamamie idea of building a 500-mile pipeline to draw water from Flaming Gorge Reservoir to slake the thirst of the rapidly growing Front Range of Colorado. The governor of Wyoming, after all, already has.
But, if Herbert marshals the evidence necessary to kill the plan, the collateral damage may be that he would also ruin the cockamamie idea of building a 139-mile pipeline to draw water from Lake Powell to drench the lawns and golf courses of the rapidly growing St. George area of Utah.
This is what happens when a boondoggle project that would benefit developers in another state is held up next to a boondoggle project that would benefit developers in your state. Opposing the first one — angering only people who can’t vote for you anyway — without undermining the second one becomes, well, awkward. ...