The Salt Lake Tribune reported on its June 14 front page that an eastern Utah railway proposal received $21.4 million in funding to build a rail line to enable the Uintah Basin to increase oil production.
This should not happen.
Every ounce of CO2 emissions that is introduced into the atmosphere hastens the demise of our planet. The funding should go instead to the Uintah Basin to educate and facilitate and generate new, green industries that will promote clean air and good health.
The governor should be ashamed that he has not allocated monies for training for new industries in this part of the state. While the rest of the world is trying to save the planet from destruction, Vernal and Roosevelt are living in a pipe dream of the past. Wake up.
Barbara Taylor, Salt Lake City