Taxpayers Pay as Fracking Trucks Overwhelm Rural Cow Paths

 

Comments:  Think of our county and city roads if Gov Bob's Uranium Working Group suggest the ban to be lifted, our roads are bad now.....               

By Jim Efstathiou Jr. - May 15, 2012 12:19 PM ET

 Then oversize trucks hauling drilling supplies began tearing up local roads, creating hazardous conditions.

“The bastards are just in too much of a hurry,” Hughes said, recalling an incident when a dump truck tried to pass him on one of the county’s narrow, two-lane roads that have suffered from the pounding of the trucks.

 surge in hydraulic fracturing to get gas and oil trapped in rock means drillers need to haul hundreds of truckloads of sand, water and equipment for a single well

The resulting road damage will cost tens of millions of dollars to fix and is catching officials from Pennsylvania to Texas off guard.

Measures to ensure that roads are repaired don’t capture the full cost of damage, potentially leaving taxpayers with the bill, according to Lynne Irwin, director ofCornell University’s local roads program in Ithaca, New York.


“It’s the Wild West,” Irwin said in an interview.“Everybody is making up their own rules.”


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