It takes many tons of sand and hundreds of truck trips to support hydraulic fracturing operations. Sand mixed with water is used to prop open the tiny fractures and allow oil and gas to flow freely.

Sidley plans to soon have 50 pneumatic tankers hauling fracking sand to area natural gas wells. Photo by Tom Berg. A recent visit to northeast Ohio put me face to face with people involved in the ...

Demand is exploding for the massive amounts of sand used in fracking, creating a windfall for mines from Texas to Wisconsin but leading to worries about the health impacts of breathing silica dust.

When workplace safety expert Eric Esswein got a chance to see fracking in action not too long ago, what he noticed was all the dust. It was coming off big machines used to haul around huge loads of ...

I’ve reported several times recently on the “sand mining frenzy” in Wisconsin and Minnesota that is creating both “sand prosperity” and “sand millionaires”, and at the same time creating a lot of ...