The frac sand boom has divided residents into those who believe mining will create sorely needed jobs in rural Wisconsin and those who fear the impacts the mines may have on health, road safety and ...

Pattison Sand Co. has requested rezoning of 746 acres of land from agricultural to heavy industrial for eventual expansion of its underground mine from its current size of about 100 acres. The site, ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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His concern, as he watched the drama unfold, grew into a research project and then, over the course of several years, a book. “When the Hills Are Gone: Frac Sand Mining and the Struggle for Community, ...

Business lobbyists faced off Thursday against advocates for the environment and local governments over a bill designed to roll back local powers to regulate sand mining, rock blasting and road ...

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The town of Orange is the first in Juneau County to enact an ordinance regulating frac sand mining. “We’re not creating a moratorium on it by any means,” said town Chairman Mike Keichinger. “But we’ve ...