Posts Tagged: hydrofracturing

Frac Sand’s Wild Refugees

Posted March 29th, 2015 by Brian DeVore, Land Stewardship Project & filed under agriculture, clean energy future, Food and Sustainable Agriculture, Land Conservation, Loon Commons blog, oil, Wildlife.

By Johanna Rupprecht, Land Stewardship Project There’s a farm near the Jackson County, Wis., community of Hixton that is in the process of being destroyed by being turned into a… Read more »

First Test of 2013 MN Frac Sand Law is Successful

Posted July 31st, 2014 by Brian DeVore, Land Stewardship Project & filed under agriculture, Energy, EQB and Environmental Review, Food and Sustainable Agriculture, Global Warming, Health, Land Conservation, Loon Commons blog, oil, rural, Water.

By Johanna Rupprecht, Land Stewardship Project The owner of a controversial Houston County silica sand mine was notified Monday by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) that he must… Read more »