The Bureau of Land Management has given expedited approval to a project that will expand oil-by-rail shipments from Utah’s Uinta Basin to Gulf Coast refineries by tens of thousands of barrels a day.
The Wildcat Loadout Facility got its permit July 3 under the Trump administration’s “national energy emergency.”
Coal Energy Group 2 applied in May for a change to its right of way permit for its Wildcat project. BLM took on the project’s application in June and gave its approval in less than 14 days of review, according to according to agency documents.
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