#SCOTUS narrowed the scope of govt-required #environmental reviews for major infrastructure projects, overturning a lower-court block on a controversial #rail line in #Utah to carry billions of gallons of #oil.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/23-975_m648.pdf

Challengers spent years battling over the 88-mile stretch connecting the #UintaBasin in Utah to national rails for the extraction of waxy #crude from one of the nation’s largest oil fields.

#law #FossilFuels #Climate #Environment #regulations #ActivistCourt

"The court found [the Surface Transportation Board failed] to adequately study the potential of #OilSpills, train #derailments along the #ColoradoRiver and the potential for #wildfire in communities along tracks that will be carrying heated tankers filled with “waxy” crude from Utah to the Gulf Coast.

The #UintaBasin already directs its waxy crude along railroads through #Colorado but the new track would increase traffic as much as five times."

https://coloradosun.com/2023/08/18/uinta-basin-railway-waxy-crude-colorado/

This is good news! Judge blocks the Uinta Basin rail approval!

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Uinta Basin plan to send Utah oil through Colorado derailed

The appeals court ruled that the Surface Transportation Board conducted a “poor environmental review,” by failing to study the potential of oil spills, trail derailments along the Colorado River and the potential for wildfire in communities.

https://coloradosun.com/2023/08/18/uinta-basin-railway-waxy-crude-colorado/

#Colorado #ClimateChange #UintaBasin

Oil-train opponents look to railroad’s expiring Moffat Tunnel lease for bargaining power
#Colorado #UintaBasin #oiltrain #MoffatTunnel #UintaBasinRailway #ColoradoRiver
https://coloradonewsline.com/2023/07/28/oil-train-opponents-railroad-moffat-tunnel/
UBR Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uinta_Basin_Rail

I have watched the third #season of "The Secret of #Skinwalker Ranch" and I am puzzled. Another show in the #Uinta basin region with the same #phenomena is "The #Mystery at Blind Frog Ranch".

#TheSecretOfSkinwalkerRanch
#TheMysteryAtBlindFrogRanch
#UintaBasin #uap #ufo #paranormal #phenomenon #portal