The La Crosse Center is playing host to the Frac Sand Insider conference which began Tuesday. Frac sand mining is the mining of sand that is used in the fracking process to get oil and natural gas out ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nov. 30—Except for the oil and natural gas themselves, one of the oilfield's hottest commodities these days is the sand used to fracture or "frac" the bedrock formations and loosen them up for ...

A looming deadline on whether or not to put a ban on frac sand mining in Houston County is causing some last minute meetings among residents. An educational meeting at the La Crescent Community Center ...

EAU CLAIRE — Sand mining isn’t new to Wisconsin or Minnesota. And despite a significant, prolonged slowdown in the industry, it’s here to stay. But the current bear market for sand could last a while.

WINONA — Silica-sand mining and downtown development are the two hot-button issues heading into the primary for the Ward 4 seat on the Winona City Council. Winona residents continue to debate the ...

The film “Frac Sand Land” will be shown at 7 p.m. Sept. 23 in the Community Room at the Reedsburg Public Library, 370 Vine St. in Reedsburg. Sand mines have emerged in ever-increasing numbers in ...

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 ...

This letter is to express my strong objection to frac-sand mining in southeastern Minnesota. As a resident of rural Fillmore County, my potential for being heavily affected by this activity is very ...

When Gloria Schultz bought her home in rural Taylor, she thought she found a needle in a haystack. She was in the middle of retirement and found an affordable home that could accommodate herself, a ...