Comment on Is seven-county coalition squandering money earmarked for rural Utah?

Several mineral-rich eastern Utah counties banded together a few years ago to build costly commodity-moving projects needed by extractive industries to tap underground resources and get them to market. Utah’s isolation puts energy development at a competitive disadvantage, so, these county officials argue, the state should subsidize export terminals and rail, pipe and utility lines that help move Utah’s coal, oil, gas, power and potash.