The Center for Biological Diversity and other groups allege that Utah officials misallocated $28 million from a pot of money set aside for projects supporting essential public services — not major infrastructure benefiting a narrow private interest.
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“This is a huge victory that will get Utah energy to market faster, more cleanly, more safely, and will help the economies of eastern Utah,” he said in a statement. “State and local governments, the Ute Tribe, energy producers and rail companies have been making the argument for decades that improved access to the outside world will help the basin diversify its economy.”
. “We simply cannot afford the risk of an oil train derailment in these sensitive areas that are already recovering from crippling disasters, which are only projected to become more frequent and severe.”While more legal challenges may arise, no major regulatory hurdles are left for the $1.4 billion project. The federal Surface Transportation Board completed anConstruction could begin next year and is expected to take 2 years to complete the 85-mile line.
“That’s still $2 million that could go to very important projects in the Uinta Basin for local communities, such as fire trucks, water and sewer lines, road repairs, health clinics, parks and trails, actual planning to help communities to deal with all of the burdens that oil drilling places on them,” said Wendy Park, a lawyer representing the Center for Biological Diversity, ticking off the type of bread-and-butter investment CIB money is designed to support.
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