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A Proposed Utah Railway Could Quadruple Oil Production in the Uinta Basin, if Colorado Communities Don’t Derail the Project

Inside Climate News · By Wyatt Myskow · last updated
Opponents say the rail line goes against the Biden administration’s efforts to fight climate change and could cause an East Palestine-type disaster on the Colorado River.

By Wyatt Myskow

Utah’s Uinta Basin has long been a place of economic booms and busts thanks to the region’s reliance on the oil and gas industry. Keith Heaton thinks that could change with the construction of a new rail line in the area that could drive a quadrupling of the region’s crude oil production to upwards of 350,000 barrels per day when it connects with the national rail network that delivers to refineries on the Gulf Coast

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