Frack sand truck

Some might call this truck

a "sow belly" or more descriptively, a "sand hog" but I refuse to anthropomorphize onto an instrument of destruction. Such framing seeks to diminish and naturalize the unnatural. This is a truck that's used to transport a particular type of sand used in high volume hydraulic fracturing for unnatural gas, the mining of which sand in Wisconsin has been causing major health problems, currently being ignored by the powers that be.

This truck has been parked at the dead end side of the entrance to Old Owego Rd. in the Town of Owego. Sometimes the cab is attached. At other times, such as when I parked and got near to take these photos, the cab is gone.

I have no idea why it's parked there nor whether it's the same truck or a different one each time.

The truck comes and goes and comes. There's a frack sand transfer facility in the village of Owego about 15 minutes to the west by auto.

I took this photo August 16, 2011 in the village of Owego at the Ward & Van Scoy business on Erie St near Rte 96 at about10:00 a.m. The sand was being blown from the silo to the truck via a pipe in a box flimsily covered with blue tarp that was blowing about. I did not see the worker wearing any protective face gear. The noise was loud. The sand is transported by freight train into the village, along a rail that runs on the north side of the Susquehanna River. This river runs parallel to Rte. 17/I86, which itself runs parallel to Rte 434, which the parked frack sand truck drove on in order to get to this parking spot.