An amendment to a bill about free transit fares is stoking ire over how it would affect transportation funding for parts of Colorado with low population
Surface Transportation Board
Posted inCrime and Courts
10 Colorado communities support lawsuit to block Utah oil trains along Colorado River
Cities and counties the tracks run through want to support appeal of 2020 federal approval of Utah’s Uinta Basin Railway, which routes waxy crude oil trains through Colorado
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Utah crude trains could be rolling through Colorado after Forest Service denies objections to new rail line
It’s looking likely that heated train cars loaded with a waxy crude oil will be rolling through Colorado after the Forest Service last week rejected objections to the proposed new rail line in a section of roadless forest in Utah. “We are going to continue to fight this terrible project with every tool available to […]
Posted inNews, Outsider, Transportation
Trains will carry “waxy crude” oil through Colorado every day after Utah approves new railway
The Surface Transportation Board’s recent approval of a new 88-mile railroad in Utah’s Uinta Basin has spiked concerns that daily trains loaded with heated crude oil will be traveling along Colorado’s river corridors. “It’s a ticking carbon bomb,” said Michael Kunkel, whose Friends of Browns Canyon last summer successful campaigned to block an expedited proposal […]
Posted inOpinion, Opinion Columns
Opinion | From Utah with love: a warning about oil trains that could be rolling through Colorado
Greetings from Utah. I write to warn Coloradans of the looming threat to your beautiful state — a threat devised by Utah politicians. It comes in the form of a proposed 88-mile-long oil railway that would quadruple oil extraction in northeast Utah’s Uinta Basin. If the Uinta Basin Railway is built it will need to […]