Comment EI-31162
Received or sent (printed as 1/27/2021)
I took a trip to Dinosaur National Monument about 5 years ago. In that 3 or so hour drive, I counted 60 trucks going the opposite direction carrying oil and gas. When I went home, I counted about 60 trucks also returning to the basin. This is in only 3 or 4 yours time, so you can imagine how many trucks per day are travelling this road, polluting the air. You might say then that a train carrying all that oil and gas instead of hundreds of trucks might result in fewer emissions and better air quality. You might say that if the railway isn't built, then eventually the road will need to be widened which would also damage plant and animal habitat. I don't know the true answers to any of these questions. But I do know that we should not be pursuing more and more drilling in the Basin. I oppose the development of the Uinta Basin Railway, and I also oppose any other road developments on that corridor.
Submitted by: Sylvia Wilcox · Salt Lake City, 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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