Smart Sand, Inc. plans to build a rail terminal near Tomah to handle sand from the Texas company’s existing 1,118-acre mine in Oakdale, which is about four mils away and already has a loading facility ...

State Sen. Kathleen Vinehout has again introduced a package of bills intended to increase oversight of the frac sand industry. The Alma Democrat said each of the six bills is in response to problems ...

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is allowing more frac sand mines to open even though it let its environmental regulations on the industry expire nine months ago because the rules didn’t ...

EAU CLAIRE, Wis. — Jack Speerstra would like to see the new jobs generated by starting frac sand operations in the town of Lincoln in Trempealeau County. But Speerstra, who is chairman of the town, ...

Anyone hoping to start a frac sand mining operation in Winona County will need to put their plans on hold — at least for now. In a 3-2 vote, the Winona County Board of Commissioners passed a ...

Wisconsin’s frac sand mining industry isn’t going away, but industry experts say not all mines will survive as market forces change the business model. Advances in a gas and oil mining technique known ...

His concern, as he watched the drama unfold, grew into a research project and then, over the course of several years, a book. “When the Hills Are Gone: Frac Sand Mining and the Struggle for Community, ...

Two Republican state legislators are pushing for a far-reaching new law that would vastly diminish local government power to regulate rock blasting and frac sand mining. If enacted, the statute would ...

A local county government is looking to regulate sand mines before a moratorium expires for the contentious issue. On Tuesday, the Houston County Commissioners moved a proposed ordinance forward.

Five Republican lawmakers from western Wisconsin, the heart of the state's frac sand mining boom, are expressing concerns over a Republican bill that would strip local government control to regulate ...

Pattison Sand Co. of Clayton, Iowa, is building a mine on roughly 300 acres of farmland on a sliver of land between Wisconsin 60 and the Lower Wisconsin River to collect frac sand, used in the process ...