No, this is NOT the place, for a pipeline

By: Brian Moench

Outlets: Utah News Dispatch

Published: October 13, 2026

Words: 805

Last Updated: 4 days, 9 hours ago


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Emigration Canyon residents recently found surveyors for the oil company HF Sinclair poking around their yards. Sinclair wants to lay a new 12-inch gasoline pipeline through the canyon and foothills of Salt Lake City carrying up to 4 million gallons a day of gasoline and diesel.

Since 2010 the U.S. Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) has counted 9,329 fossil fuel pipeline leaking incidents, an average of at least 1.7 events per …

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