(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) (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. A proposed 85-mile oil-hauling railroad into the basin has won final approval, drawing lawsuits from environmental groups and a Colorado county.
Brian Maffly has worked for The Tribune off and on since 1994. Maffly roams Utah, covering public land and environment.