![]() ![]() Get connectedĮvery morning, thousands of energy professionals turn to our newsletters for the day’s most important news. “I don’t even know how much of that is at stake, and I fear that we won’t know until it’s done,” Collins said. No one knows the extent of the sand mines planned in Illinois, but Wisconsin-style frac sand mining could do serious damage to the fragile ecology of the Illinois River Valley, she said. ![]() “Our experience here is that there’s probably no one watching and thinking and worrying about this,” said Glynnis Collins, executive director of Prairie Rivers Network, a Champaign, Illinois-based river conservation group. And right now, environmentalists say, frac sand mining threatens one of Illinois’ most beloved and iconic state parks-and perhaps the entire Illinois River Valley. That’s because the great frac sand rush that has engulfed Wisconsin and Minnesota is making inroads in Illinois. It’s “hypermining”-sand mining on steroids. (Photo by Anne Hornyak via Creative Commons)įor a century, the picturesque river town of Ottawa, Illinois, has supplied sand to a nation, with several companies mining high quality silica sand from the Illinois River Valley to supply makers of glass, molds to make auto parts, paint, and other industrial products.īut what’s coming to Ottawa and nearby towns in the Illinois River Valley is not ordinary sand mining, says Farley Andrews, an Ottawa-based photographer and school bus driver. A waterfall at Starved Rock State Park in Illinois.
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