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they will mine and ship some 22 million tons of sand this year to shale drillers all around them in the Permian Basin, the hottest oil patch on Earth. It is a staggering sum of sand, equal to almost a quarter of total U.S. supply. And within a couple years, industry experts say, the figure could climb to over 50 million tons.
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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...lains-of-texas
*fracking is a single-handed environmental disaster
*sand is undervalued where nature put it - it plays an important role in the ecosystems
*the process of mining itself both for the sand and shale and oil and natural gas are all burdensome unhealthy processes leaving behind huge amounts of pollutants
*removing 25% of the sand in the US in 1 year will destroy aquifers, upset water supplies- disrupt the movement of water underground increasing the likelihood of droughts and flooding and simply unpredictable weather patterns