Fracking is encroaching on US nuclear missile sites, general says

Published May 17, 2017 3:37pm ET



The fracking boom in America’s wide open spaces is causing a challenge for the crews of intercontinental ballistic missile sites, according to the general in charge of the Air Force Global Strike Command.

Over the past decade, the natural gas extraction business, including its influx of drilling crews and truck traffic, has spread across the same states where the 20th Air Force maintains its nuclear missile sites.

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