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Forest Service Withdraws Key Permit for Controversial Utah Oil-Train Project – Pagosa Daily Post News Events & Video for Pagosa Springs Colorado pagosadailypost.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from pagosadailypost.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
(Ashley National Forest, UT) The United States Forest Service has withdrawn its permission to build rail road tracks in Ashley National Forest. This comes after a US Appeals court found that the Surface Transportation Board rushed through the environmental impact statements. The 12 miles of track was a part of the planned Uinta Basin ....
Forest Service cancels oil train permit based on appeals court ruling last year gjsentinel.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from gjsentinel.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Forest Service pulls right-of-way permit for the oil hauling Uinta Basin Railway kuer.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from kuer.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The U.S. Forest Service on Wednesday withdrew its approval of a right-of-way permit that would have allowed the construction of a railroad project through about 12 miles (19 kilometers) of roadless, protected forest in northeastern Utah. The decision affecting the Ashley National Forest follows a U.S. appeals court ruling in August that struck down a critical approval involving the Uinta Basin Railway, a proposed 88-mile (142-kilometer) railroad line that would connect oil and gas producers in rural Utah to the broader rail network. “It’s a victory for the Colorado River and nearby communities that would be threatened by oil train accidents and spills, and for residents of the Gulf Coast, where billions of gallons of oil would be refined," said Ted Zukoski, an attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity, one of several groups that has sued over the project. ....