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.
The Uinta Basin Railway would let producers, currently limited to tanker trucks, ship an additional 350,000 barrels of crude daily.
The Uinta Basin Railway would let producers, currently limited to tanker trucks, ship an additional 350,000 barrels of crude daily on trains up to 2 miles long. Backers say it would buoy the local economy and lessen American dependence on oil imports. “They’re not following their own policies,” said Deeda Seed of the Center for Biological Diversity, one of several groups that has sued over the project. “The world’s on fire. The Biden administration says they want to stop the harm. So far they’re enabling a project that makes the fire even bigger.”
Most of the crude produced in the Uinta Basin currently makes its way to refineries via heated tanker trucks that traverse mountains on a two-lane highway. Transportation costs force producers to mainly sell their barrels to the five Salt Lake City-area refineries for significantly less than they could get bigger markets in Gulf states like Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi.
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.
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