Fitz: Listen to Ed Abbey, the Anasazi: Save the San Pedro

[Kali]

http://tucson.com/news/opinion/column/fitz/fitz-listen-to-ed-abbey-the-anasazi-save-the-san/article_a53dc569-35ce-5c94-b08c-8da0c2a3121b.html

A 28,000-home development in Benson could add up to 70,000 more people to the town’s current population of around 5,000, all of them dependent on the pumping of groundwater.”

—Tim Steller, Arizona Daily Star

“Benson council gives unanimous OK for Vigneto”

–Star headline, July 20

“One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain’t nothin’ can beat teamwork.”

— Edward Abbey, author and environmentalist

Now the fine folks in Benson, the Gila Bend of Cochise County, mean well. When you’re a small town on the ropes and a slick fellow like developer Mike Reinbold comes in, promising Benson will boom when his 28,000-home Vigneto master plan is built, well, heck, your ears perk up.

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[Ptah]

1. I can't understand where they think the water will come from.

And also, I imagine being on that plateau with such a quick drop off
to the east would tend to have very frequent wind.