Courts shut down plans for a new railway to transport oil through Utah

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English - September 07, 2023 19:16 - 10 minutes - 9.95 MB - ★★★★★ - 25 ratings
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Federal approval for the Uinta Basin Railway was recently revoked by the U.S. Court of Appeals. The proposed 88-mile railway is intended to connect oil fields in eastern Utah to a larger network of railways, including a section of the Union Pacific Railway line, which runs through Grand County. With this new route, oil producers were hoping to transport an additional 350,000 gallons of waxy crude oil out of the Uinta Basin daily. Plus, we hear from our partners at KOTO about how the Telluride Mushroom Festival is acknowledging Colorado’s recent decriminalization of psilocybin.

//Photo: A map of the proposed Uinta Basin Railway show where the new tracks would connect to the Union Pacific line, carrying oil through Utah and Colorado on its way to the Gulf of Mexico.

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//7 County Infrastructure Coalition: Uinta Basin Railway
https://scic-utah.org/projects/uinta-basin-railway/