Frac Sand Sentinel #32

On Saturday, March 29, 2014 1:04 PM, Patricia J. Popple <sunnyday5@charter.net> wrote:

Your copy of the Frac Sand Sentinel is attached. Choose the one that best fits your style.

http://wisair.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/frac-sand-sentinel-issue-32-march-29-2014.pdf

Note the pictures captured from the mines in Chippewa Co., WI. There will be more. The posters I carry around are obsolete! These pictures were taken
in October, 2013, and capture the increasing size of mines as they continue to expand outward everyday as the sandstone is stripped from the earth, crushed, washed, sorted and trucked or trans-loaded out by rail by the tons. The removal of our hills, bluffs, and ridges in NW WI and the accompanying negatives make one take pause at the destructive industry and what it is doing to destroy the State of Wisconsin.

You will learn more about what is happening in other states that have hydraulic fracturing to contend with everyday.

Please take some time to search out the sites.

If you have questions, concerns, ideas, other information, feel free to contact me.
Pat Popple
715-723-6398
www.ccc-wis.com (Hank Boschen is our webmaster and you can add to the blog at this site! You are welcome to contribute articles, too.)

Issue: #32                                                                               DATE: March 29, 2014

CHIPPEWA COUNTY: FRAC SAND MINE

THIS IS NOT A SAND AND GRAVEL PIT AND YET BOTH SAND AND GRAVEL PITS AND FRAC SAND MINES FOLLOW THE SAME ORDINANCE! THERE ARE 285 SAND AND GRAVEL PITS PERMITTED IN CHIPPEWA CO. ONLY 2 HAVE BEEN RECLAIMED IN THE PAST 18 YEARS. WHAT ABOUT FRAC SAND MINES LIKE THIS ONE ABOVE? HOW WILL IT BE SUCCESSFULLY BE RECLAIMED TO BE AGRICULTURALLY PRODUCTIVE?

Many readers are expressing an interest in the issues surrounding the hydraulic fracturing industry and how that industry impacts the Midwest regarding frac sand mining, processing and trans-load.  It is crucial that connections be made with those on the giving and receiving ends of frac sand. There are many “injured”, lands, ecosystems, people and animals on both ends of the spectrum. Please check out the sources below. There are others available by linking from one site to the other.

Here is one of the very best: it is being followed by the public (and the industry).

www.marcellus-shale.us

Another popular place to find information:

www.un-naturalgas.org