One of the United States' biggest rail investments in more than a century could be an 88-mile line in Utah that would run through tribal lands and national forest to move oil and gas to the national rail network.
, Arizona and New Mexico this week, they say the country cannot afford to double down on fossil fuels.
The railroad would start in the northern end of the Uinta Basin and run south to connect producers in Utah’s Duchesne and Uintah counties — combined population 55,000 — to the broader railroad network. Workers from eastern Utah’s oil and gas industry and others attend a Utah Division of Oil, Gas and Mining meeting on July 13, 2023, in Duchesne, Utah.
The proposal has already won key federal agency approvals, including from the Surface Transportation Board. The U.S. Forest Service granted a 12-mile right-of-way through the Ashley National Forest, where three of the project’s five tunnels would be dug into mountainsides. Pumpjacks dip their heads to extract oil in a basin south of Duchesne, Utah on Thursday, July 13, 2023.
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