Dinosaur project moving slowly

From the Edmonton Journal: Dinosaur project moving slowly

It's too bad the slow pace of fundraising has delayed until 2013 plans to open a dinosaur museum in Grande Prairie. Let's hope a reluctance to be associated with once-lumbering, now-extinct animals is not keeping an overly image-conscious Conservative government from chipping in.

The new facility will showcase the Pipestone Creek bone bed, the world's densest deposit of horned dinosaurs, as well as providing an attraction that could draw visitors from around the globe.

But organizers have only collected one-third of the $27 million needed to build the museum, to be named for University of Alberta biology professor Phil Currie, who did the first major excavation at the site, and his wife Eva Koppelhus.

The museum society directors are waiting partly for Conservatives to choose a new premier who might funnel an extra $5 million into the project. Candidates Doug Horner, Gary Mar and Alison Redford attended a recent fundraising gala for it. Backers must be hoping the other hopefuls will move faster than a herd of the plant-eating animals to support the project.

Would it be fair to say, at the risk of metaphor overkill, that to do otherwise could be considered fossilized thinking?