ELI’s David Roche Tapped as An Expert Panelist on NPR’s The Diane Rehm Show on the Topic of Sand “Mining” for Fracking, Coastal Restoration and Other Uses

By Chmee2 (Own work) [GFDL, CC-BY-SA-3.0 or CC BY-SA 2.5-2.0-1.0], via Wikimedia Commons ELI attorney David Roche was a guest on NPR’s August 8th program of The Diane Rehm Show to talk about the increasing global demand for sand. David, and other guests on the esteemed panel, examined the growing use and extraction of sand around the world for use in everything from construction efforts to fracking to coastal restoration, and the potential ecological impacts of dredging sand from rivers and oceans. Other guests included: Vince Beiser - a journalist who is working on a book about the global black market in sand Geoffrey Wikel - oceanographer, Division of Environmental Assessment, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, U.S. Dept of the Interior Barry Holliday - executive director, Dredging Contractors of America; former chief of navigation, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers You can listen to David’s thoughts on the topic and ELI’s related work on the website for the segment, “The Increasing Global Demand for Sand”, at https://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2016-08-08/the-global-demand-for-sand .