Firewood Cost Increases Due To Fracking
Concord — Northeasterners who are digging deeper into their pockets to pay for firewood this season can add a new scapegoat to the roster of usual market forces: fracking. A timber industry representative in New Hampshire said hydraulic fracturing well sites in Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale formation built to suck natural gas out of the ground are using construction “mats” made of hardwood logs — think of the corduroy roads seen in...
