NEPA and the Uinta Basin Railway was a focus of several speakers at day 2 of the Uintah Basin Energy Summit on Thursday. Mark Michel, co-founder and managing partner at the DHIP Group, spoke first about the project and the bright future he sees for this area as the rail becomes a reality. Michel emphasized that NEPA, short for the National Environmental Policy Act of 1970, has been used to stranglehold and thwart progress in the United States, saying opponents have been using NEPA to give death by a thousand paper cuts and kill projects like the rail. Michel said it’s no coincidence that the Uinta Basin Railway will be the first railroad built in 50 years when NEPA was passed roughly 50 years ago. Jay Johnson spoke in detail on NEPA and what the U.S. Supreme Court decision about the Uinta

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