George Berklacy gave good quote, on or off the record.
Like the time, in the early 1990s, that a coal-burning power plant was proposed to be built about 35 miles from Shenandoah National Park. The 66.5-megawatt project would have tainted the park’s sensitive mountain air and it fell to Berklacy as the National Park Service’s chief spokesperson to voice the agency’s concern.
“George was quoted, I think in The Washington Post, that building a power plant there would be ‘like holding a roller derby in the Sistine Chapel,'” retired Fish and Wildlife Service public affairs chief Megan Durham recalled.
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Berklacy outlasted the power plant proposal. The facility was never built.
