re: #73 CuriousLurker

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From the article, emphasis added:

Covering hundreds of acres on Navajo Reservation land, it is arguably the most intrusive development ever proposed for the Grand Canyon—a $500 million to $1.1 billion recreation and transport facility featuring a 1.4-mile tramway equipped with eight-passenger gondolas that would carry as many as 10,000 people a day down to the river confluence, with new roads, hotels, gift shops, restaurants and other attractions. The developer—Confluence Partners LLC, a Scottsdale, Arizona-based investment group whose members’ ventures include real estate, resorts and theme parks—says construction of the Escalade could begin as early as this year. […]

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/who-can-save-the-grand-canyon-180954329/

So these assholes basically want to turn the Grand Canyon into some kind of cheesy theme park.