Frack Off, New York
December 23, 2014Environmentally minded New Yorkers are crying with glee and natural-gas supporters are raging mad over New York State’s ban on fracking.
Environmentally minded New Yorkers are crying with glee and natural-gas supporters are raging mad over New York State’s ban on fracking.
As fracking for natural gas becomes widespread across the U.S., it puts beginning farmers’ sustainability and bottom line at risk.
Photo courtesy iStockphoto/Thinkstock A new California bill will add more transparency to oil companies that frack. Hydraulic fracturing, “fracking,” companies may soon be revealing more information about their fracking explorations, due to a new draft for a bill by California Governor Jerry Brown’s administration. Although it will take a long time for the bill to […]
Photo by Jim Tittle/www.nocfcfracplant.com Glacier Sands, LLC recently obtained a conditional permit to build a 325-acre frac dry-sand plant and rail-loading facility directly across the street from Cochrane-Fountain City School in Fountain City, Wis. This not-too-uncommon-in-Wisconsin facility will be located between Kamrowski Road and Bensel Pond, and will be the main distribution center for frac-sand […]
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