'The administration can halt this filthy oil train in its tracks and demonstrate its commitment curbing climate change,' said Randi Spivak at the Center for Biological Diversity.
The Utah railroad would connect to the national rail network, allowing trains to transport "waxy crude" to Gulf Coast refineries from the Uinta Basin in northern Utah. The railroad will increase oil production in the Uinta Basin, which has been limited by the fact the viscous crude is too thick to move through a pipeline.
Contrary to that executive order, "the intended purpose and stated goal of the railway is to increase fossil fuel extraction on public lands in the Uinta Basin," the groups wrote, pointing to a potential quadrupling of fossil fuel extraction in the basin from 80,000 barrels per day to 350,000 barrels per day.
"Virtually the entirety of the railway on the Ashley National Forest, totaling 12 miles, would be built in an inventoried roadless area protected by the Roadless Area Conservation Rule," the groups wrote, "and according to the Forest Service, degrade roadless area values by building five bridges and blasting three tunnels up to 2,100 feet wide."
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