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Why sand is disappearing

2014-11-05 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

New York Times: TO those of us who visit beaches only in summer, they seem as permanent a part of our natural heritage as the Rocky Mountains and the Great Lakes. But shore dwellers know differently. Beaches are the most transitory of landscapes, and sand beaches the most vulnerable of all. During big storms, especially in winter, they can simply vanish, only to magically reappear in time for the summer season. It could once be said that a beach is a place where sand stops to rest for a moment before resuming...

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More fracking means more sand

2014-10-06 21:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

AAP: The white sand beaches in Pennsylvania are a mile underground, where salt water and fine mesh sand luxuriate in the fracks of the Marcellus Shale. The volume of frack sand used at each well to prop open newly created fissures and allow gas to flow to the wellbore has been on the rise over the past year. By some estimates, the increase has been dramatic. "Most customers are pumping as much as they can," said Iain McIntosh, vice president at Baker Hughes, a Texas-based oil and gas service firm...

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Could Fracking Boom Drive Silica Sand Mining Operations in 12 More States?

2014-09-26 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

International Business Times: Victoria Trinko says she hasnt opened the windows to her home in Bloomer, Wisconsin, in more than two years. Thats around the time a mining company began churning up silica sand a half-mile from her family farm, filling the air with tiny particles and making it harder for her to breathe. I could feel dust clinging to my face and gritty particles on my teeth, Trinko recalls. Silica sand is one of many ingredients used in the hydraulic fracturing process. During fracking, operators blast thousands...

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The Sand Demand: Finding Opportunities Beyond Direct Shale Plays

2014-09-20 14:00:31| Railroads - Topix.net

Total U.S. crude oil production averaged an estimated 8.6 million barrels per day in August, the highest monthly production since July 1986, according to the Energy Information Administration . In our Special Energy Report: An American Energy Renaissance , we highlight that just a few years ago investors were contemplating the supply constraints facing the petroleum industry, but with the disruptive technology in shale oil and gas in the U.S., we could now be looking at decades of drilling ahead.

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