In an Oct. 22 letter to Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes, Moab attorney Christina Sloan asserted that under state and federal law, Community Impact Fund Board (CIB)-funded projects must be public infrastructure or services that are open and available to the citizens.
The Utah Attorney General’s office confirmed that it is currently reviewing two projects with CIB staff and the applicants’ lawyers — the $53 million “throughput capacity project” in Oakland.
Regardless of the Utah Attorney General’s opinion about CIB funding for throughput capacity, the Oakland terminal itself — which is still in development — may have come to a standstill in California. On Oct. 2, the California-based law firm Earthjustice filed a lawsuit against the terminal’s developer, Terminal Logistics Solutions, for agreeing to ship Utah’s coal.
