I am not sure if many of you are aware of this or not, but there is a boom happening in the frac sand market. As the need for oil companies to drill deeper and extract more oil from existing wells ...

The debate over frac sand mining blew like a sudden summer tornado into Winona County. As the county's planning commission - and soon the Winona County Board of Commissioners - prepare to vote on ...

As the slump in the frac sand industry continues, communities in the Chippewa Valley and beyond are concerned about what the uncertain future of the industry will mean for residents. While the ...

That was the verdict for 20 frac sand protesters, who were each convicted of trespassing Thursday afternoon in Winona County District Court after a four-day trial and a three-hour jury deliberation.

CALEDONIA, Minn. — An environmental group on Tuesday proposed banning large-scale frac sand mining. The Houston County Protectors offered the county board what the advocacy group described as a ...

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Gen6 Proppants (Gen6), a frac sand solutions provider, announced today its plans to develop a new frac sand mine to serve the Haynesville Shale region, with the acquisition ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

The Houston County Commissioners were not able to come to an agreement on a frac sand mining ordinance Tuesday morning. Houston County will revert back to the original ordinance that says little about ...

Wisconsin is the nation’s No. 1 producer of sand used in hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, a process to extract oil and natural gas. There are at least 124 permitted or operational frac sand mines, ...