NATION : Montana to Take Sect to Court
Officials said today that they will ask a court to halt construction of a fallout shelter complex near Yellowstone National Park after more than 30,000 gallons of fuel leaked from the builders’ buried tanks.
At the state capital in Helena, David Niss, an attorney with the Department of Health and Environmental Sciences, said after a meeting with Gov. Stan Stephens and state regulators that the state will seek a court order this week.
It would direct the Church Universal and Triumphant, a New Age religious sect that is building the shelter, to stop all construction until completion of an environmental review.
The church installed the underground tanks for 634,500 gallons of gasoline and diesel fuel as part of a 750-person fallout-shelter complex it is completing at its Corwin Springs headquarters five miles north of Yellowstone.
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