![]() ![]() One hopes that municipalities and governing bodies have professional standards for environmental protection. ![]() " Quorum Court should take action immediately to.assure there is no risk to our water and property." Not sure what the Calico Rock area looks like now, but tourism is apparently one of Izard County's chief industries. " Large-scale quarry mining could change the entire character of our area."Īgreed. ![]() " Quarry mines usually become big holes in the ground," Dunaway writes.Įvident after 100 years of operations at Guion. I read recently about new frac sand mining proposals in Arkansas' Izard County.Īrkansas resident Jennifer Bove, in " The View from My Boots" blog, wrote about frac sand mining threatening the Arkansas Ozarks.īove published a letter from Gene Dunaway of a group called "Friends of the North Fork and White Rivers." Dunaway said that Fayetteville shale operations are driving the development of new frac sand quarries, such as a site near Calico Rock, and expansion of existing ones, such as the Guion sand plant, established in 1909 by the Arkansas Silica Sand Corp., now controlled by Connecticut-based Unimin Corp., an international industrial mineral producer. While new sand mining and processing operations ostensibly create local jobs-and that's a good thing in a down-economy-not everyone wants a soon-to-be abandoned quarry in their back yard (NIMBY). Shipping tons of sand cross-country is costly, so developing local sources in or near the new shale plays can improve the bottom line. As more shales are exploited for natural gas, demand grows for locally sourced sand to use as a proppant during hydraulic fracturing operations. ![]()
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