Comment EI-31117
Received or sent (printed as 1/28/2021)
Hello, My name is Douglas Tolman, a descendent of settlers who filled the Uinta Basin with cattle ranches and oil rigs. I now live 80 miles downstream from the Uinta Basin on the Green River, and fear that increased oil extraction will further disturb the delicate ecology of the Green River drainage. Despite the fact that my family heritage is built on oil and coal extraction in Eastern Utah, I have learned the science behind climate change, and how fossil fuel dependence has a very real impact on that. Knowing that the energy production market is moving towards renewables, it is also a financially unwise decision to use our tax dollars in a dying industry. Though Utah is long overdue for a railway, that should be a high-speed passenger train which connects underserved rural areas with jobs and education in urban areas.
Submitted by: Douglas Tolman · Green River, 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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