Posted on 07/29/2012 2:57:24 PM PDT by UB355
The latest indication of how rapidly the frack sand mining industry is growing in western Wisconsin can be found on Wall Street. Houston-based Hi-Crush Partners LP, whose sole operation is in the tiny Monroe County town of Wyeville, wants to raise $200 million in an initial public stock offering. In operation for a little more than a year, the Hi-Crush mine has experienced rapid growth. Trains with more than 80 cars regularly depart with tons of sand for delivery to the oil and gas production industry.
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One thing you can count on, Americans will always look for a way around the BS policies and laws created by the laughable morons and buffoons that WE send to Washington.
Only in Enviro Wacko Land could a pure natural sand, known as "Wisconsin White" be considered an environmental hazard. Sounds like a health food additive to me.
Only in Enviro Wacko Land could a pure natural sand, known as “Wisconsin White” be considered an environmental hazard. Sounds like a health food additive to me.
On first reading, I thought it was a kind (or brand) of cheddar cheese.
With luck the GOP Congress will work to defund most of these folks in the next budget they pass.
Kathleen Gallagher, the author. I called and talked to her about 10 years ago over some anti-gun column she had written.
I’ll bet writing this column, and the publics non-reaction to Aurora, gave her more than a little heartburn.
Monroe....my county of birth...but, I have never had legal residence in Wisconsin.
Oil Sands, Fracking, Drilling....Let’s keep this rollin.
Some want it, some don’t. Twenty miles north of me is a small Mississippi River town called Fountain City, (Wi). My wife and I drive through many times a year on pleasure drives. Several months ago while driving through that town and the surrounding area, we noticed many anti-fracking signs on people’s lawns. Apparently a fracking operation has been thinking about locating in that area. There were a few pro-fracking signs, but the great majority of the signs were anti-fracking. It might correspond to the numbers of Democrats in the area.
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