Jun 29: The Price of Sand film screening

Filmmaker Jim Tittle explores the controversy surrounding frack-sand mining in this documentary.  He became interested in frack-sand mining two years ago after an oil company secretly acquired land near his mother's house near Red Wing, MN to build a 150-acre open pit industrial silica mine.

Minnesota and Wisconsin are experiencing a mining boom because both states have plentiful deposits of pure silica sand, a necessary component of fracking.  WIth interviews of more than four dozen business owners, small town mayors, farmers and truckers, The Price of Sand tells the stories of real people and in Tittle's words, explores "the real price of frack sand, not just in dollars, but in lives, communities, and the future of our region."

1 p.m. at the Butler Public Library, 218 N McKean St., Butler, PA 16001.  Presented by Marcellus Outreach Butler.

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