Forest Service OKs right of way for Utah’s oil railway
Environmentalists see the decision as a betrayal of the Biden administration’s pledge to reduce the nation’s reliance on the fossil fuels implicated in climate change.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Since 2014, the Price River Terminal in Wellington, pictured on Friday, Sept. 17, 2021, has received Uinta Basin crude by truck and loaded it onto rail cars bound for out-of-state markets.
Brian Maffly has worked for The Tribune off and on since 1994. Maffly roams Utah, covering public land and environment.