This is a collaborative report by Mint Press News and DeSmog's Steve Horn. Within immediate vicinity of a central battleground of the Black Hawk War of 1832, land rife with a resource necessary for hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) is in the crosshairs of an industry prepared to turn the area into a battle zone once again. The
Sand Land: Fracking Industry Mining Iowa’s Iconic Sand Bluffs In New Form Of Mountaintop Removal
Mining corporations have adopted a method of mountaintop removal, blasting away entire hills laced with this frac sand devastating Iowa’s famous bluffs.