Environmentalists push lawsuits after impact statement released on $3 billion rail project that would quadruple Uinta Basin’s oil output

The proposed Uinta Basin Railway would send up to 11 trains a day between oil fields and the Union Pacific line in Price Canyon.

( Tribune file photo by Kim Raff) Oil tankers travel US-40 over Utah's Daniels Summit from the oil fields in the Uinta Basin to the refineries in North Salt Lake on May 18, 2012. The proposed Uinta Basin Railway would get some of this truck traffic off the road, by tying the basin with the national rail network.

Environmentalists push lawsuits after impact statement released on $3 billion rail project that would quadruple Uinta Basin’s oil output

The proposed Uinta Basin Railway would send up to 11 trains a day between oil fields and the Union Pacific line in Price Canyon.

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