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Press Conference on Fracking by Joe Andrucyk at Governor’s Reception Room, 100 State Circle, Annapolis MD 21401
Sophomore Daniel Dawson marches in an on-campus anti-fracking protest Friday outside Campus Center.
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The Washington County, Virginia, Board of Supervisors meeting on Tuesday in Abingdon, Virginia was standing room only and overflow into the lobby area of the building with a TV and audio. The group was to vote on letting gas companies use fracking to retreive gas. There has been a large number of residents against the method claiming polution and lost water wells from the drilling.
When arriving at the well fracking site, we back up to these storage trailers that they call "kings"... they are actually road-worthy big-rig trailers that they've raised with built-in stabilizer pads, and are divided into four different hopper compartments.
When the jobsite is up-and-running, the sand comes out of the hopper onto a conveyor in the bottom of the trailer, and then out the end onto another conveyor that is positioned perpendicular at the end of the Kings to be able to accept sand from each.
In this particular picture, the site is not up-and-running and we are simply filling up all the hoppers.