AN OIL TRAIN, AN ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTER, A BOONDOGGLE.
The proposed Uinta Basin Railway is designed to carry oil from Utah to distant refineries and markets. The project would drag the region’s economy deeper into an unhealthy dependence on fossil fuel extraction.
The railway and the frenzy of oil drilling it’s likely to unlock would worsen air pollution, worsen the climate crisis, and threaten wildlife and precious water supplies.
Rather than helping to diversify struggling rural economies, this misguided proposal would make the communities of the Uinta Basin even more captive to the fickle global price of oil.
We can and must chart a smarter, safer, more resilient path forward.
Follow this link for more information about this ill-conceived project that could send as many as 1,000 oil tankers a day through Browns Canyon National Monument.
