Uinta Basin: Indian tribes vs. Enviros
"The legal fight over a proposed 88-mile-long railroad project in Utah that would be used to transport waxy crude oil through Colorado is up for consideration at the U.S. Supreme Court."
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"Beneficiaries of the project include the
Uinta and Ouray Ute Indian tribes, who hold mineral rights that provide 'critical services' to their 3,000 members."
“'We have been fighting this proposed railway since it was first announced as a project. We're tremendously concerned about the carbon emissions that will come from the increased oil and gas production that the railway is predicated on,' Deeda Seed, senior public lands campaigner with the Center for Biological Diversity, previously told The Denver Gazette."
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