“Here we go again,” Bryan Treu, attorney for Eagle County, said of the Wildcat Loadout expansion proposal. One of the primary reasons Eagle County is challenging federal approvals for the Uinta Basin Railway is because local officials contend the federal analysis did not adequately consider downline environmental impacts. The expansion of the facility originally built for coal transport would allow Coal Energy Group to add oil holding tanks and more railroad tracks over the next 20 years.īLM Utah State Director Greg Sheehan did not return an email seeking comment on whether the agency should evaluate the loadout expansion using an EA or an EIS. The BLM in June announced it’s considering granting approval for the Wildcat Loadout expansion through an environmental assessment rather than a more comprehensive environmental impact statement - a process that takes more time and allows for more public input.
In addition to the fact that the oil on the trains is the fuel causing the climate emergency.” “We are in a climate emergency, the effects of which are causing drought, aridification, wildfire, water shortages, extreme weather events. These things make oil trains even more dangerous. “Currently it looks like oil producers are pursuing any means possible to get more oil out of the Uinta Basin, and onto trains that would travel along the Colorado River,” Deeda Seed, senior campaigner for the Center for Biological Diversity, wrote in an email. Surface Transportation Board approval, or as a Plan B in the event the Uinta Basin Railway project is derailed in court. The Seven County Infrastructure Coalition did not respond to an email requesting comment on the Wildcat Loadout expansion proposal and whether that plan is seen more as a supplement to the coalition’s rail proposal, which already has obtained U.S. The Uinta Basin Railway is being challenged in court by Eagle County, Colorado, and the Center for Biological Diversity. The latest attempt to step up production in Utah’s Uinta Basin is in addition to a seven-county Utah coalition’s bid to build a new 88-mile rail line that would connect to the main Union Pacific tracks very near the Wildcat Loadout facility and then transport oil trains through Colorado and on to refineries on the Gulf Coast. Opponents say that 70,000-barrel-per-day increase amounts to 1 billion gallons a year. The BLM is considering a plan from Coal Energy Group 2 LLC to expand the capacity of the Wildcat Loadout facility near Price, which currently can handle the storage and transport of 30,000 barrels of Uinta Basin waxy crude oil, up to a capacity of 100,000 barrels a day. Bureau of Land Management to expand the capacity of an oil transport facility on federal land west of Price, Utah, has caught the attention of Colorado officials and conservation groups opposed to increased oil train traffic along the Colorado River. A Union Pacific oil train near the Grand Mesa just outside of Grand Junction (David O.
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