From the Houston Chronicle comes word that some area developers are planning a huge ecology theme park off north I-59 in Montgomery County, just north of Houston. “Like Disney, the unique underpinning will be the story that we’re telling — the whole issue of how to sustain our planet.”
Yeah, because there’s nothing kids love more than spending their vacation getting the same propaganda lectures they get in school.
The article says the park, still in the planning stage, is two years behind schedule and having problems getting financing, and I can see why: the entire project has “money-losing rathole” written all over it. Still, if they could get it done entirely on private funding, more power to them. Nothing wrong with liberals suffering staggering financial losses from their own pockets while propping up the local economy.
However, it’s obvious they can’t, since they were able to wrangle special taxing powers from the state government. I’m sure the residents of Conroe and The Woodlands are thrilled at the prospects of their tax dollars being used to propagandize them.
The strange thing is, that it probably wouldn’t even be the weirdest (or least successful) theme park in the Greater Houston area, since that would be the the park featuring 1/20th scale replica of China’s Forbidden Kingdom.
Tags: Conroe, EarthQuest, Houston, New Caney, The Woodlands, Theme Park
Good grief! Tax dollars are paying for this?
Make BP pay for it, as part of a community service plea agreement.
[…] may remember my mention of EarthQuest, the projected Montgomery County “environmental theme park” that was going to be […]
“money-losing rathole” Hahaha! Gotta love that. Earthquest has completely imploded and the mastermind and consultant behind this dino disaster has resorted to publicly threatening and now suing everyone that has commented. Don Allen Holbrook LLC is suing The Tribune, Cynthia Calvert, The Houston Press, Craig Malisow, The Pahrump Valley Times, John and Jane Does that have commented on this matter of public concern and me (Soapboxmom). Earthquest will go down in history for the frivolous lawsuit filed by its consultant who raked in at least 1.2 million for 2007-2010 and is melting down because the gravy train has ended!