CHICAGO (June 8) – A new Policy Study from The Heartland Institute shows industrial sand mining has been “a significant driver of economic growth across the Upper Midwest.” If done in an ...

Frac sand mining may no longer be booming, but it hasn’t become a bust. Oil prices have dropped more 50 percent since last year at this time, and have an unstable short-term future. That’s slowed ...

RED WING, Minn. - Near the muddy banks of Hay Creek, a popular trout stream, are significant bluffs covered with a hardwood forest of oak, bass wood and black cherry trees. Underneath the forested ...

Frac sand destined for the oil and gas fields piles up at the EOG Resources Inc. processing plant in Chippewa Falls, Wisc. CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis. — Largely overlooked in the national debate over ...

Everyone here is engulfed in mining. It’s a huge workload for us.” Frac sand fever has hit much of west-central Wisconsin, catching residents and local governments by surprise. Permit applications ...

More than 50 people gathered in Minneapolis Monday to protest frac sand mining outside a conference on the silica sand resources of Minnesota and Wisconsin. “This is total destruction,” said Kathleen ...

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is allowing more frac sand mines to open even though it let its environmental regulations on the industry expire nine months ago because the rules didn’t ...

Wisconsin’s frac sand mining industry has expanded in recent years. Amid concerns about the potential health impacts of fine particles produced by the mines, Gov. Scott Walker’s budget includes ...

MADISON -- Two Republican state legislators are seeking support for a far-reaching new law that would vastly diminish local government power to regulate rock blasting and frac sand mining. If enacted, ...

BLACK RIVER FALLS — The attorney for a proposed Jackson County frac sand operation argued Thursday that its neighbors have no legal grounds to block construction of the $130 million project. Three ...