Elected officials in Glenwood Springs, in Garfield County, don’t want freight trains full of oil running through their city on the way to Denver…
(West Slope v Oil Trains :24)
Glenwood is joining a lawsuit by neighboring Eagle County, in opposition to federal approval of the proposed Uinta (you-IN-tuh) Basin railway oil train project from Utah. The project would send up to 5 fully loaded, two-mile-long oil trains a day through Glenwood, then Denver, on their way to refineries on the gulf coast. At the start of August, Glenwood’s Mayor sent a letter to federal Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, asking him to deny funding for that project.
Oil Trains