Comment EI-30682
Received or sent (printed as 1/28/2021)
The Uinta Basin needs economic diversity. Oil is something that will continue to come under attack by politicians and environmental groups, and the price is so volatile there can never be true stability relying on it as the primary income source for a population as large as spans from Fruitland to Jensen. A railway will benefit those in the most need of economic benefit in Utah: Rural Utah. As more items are shipped both ways, the economic benefits will continue to compound. On top of this, none of the highways in or out of the Basin are really well designed for large vehicle traffic, and every double trailer semi driving through a mountain pass increases risk for all of those around them, no matter how competent our fantastic truck drivers are. This is good for the Basin. This is good for Utah. Support the railway, we need it!
Submitted by: Brian Hawks · Roosevelt, UT
The Board publishes this comment in its environmental-comment table for this proceeding. It is quoted here as printed; nothing is inferred from it, and it states the commenter's own position in their own words, not this record's.
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