Fracking support company looks to set up shop in Kirkwood
Posted by CITIZEN POWER ALLIANCE at 8:36 AMRain for Rent, a fracking-support company from California, plans to open a branch in Kirkwood to be in the thick of Marcellus Shale development.
Plans call for a distribution and maintenance center for rental equipment, including tanks and pumps, for crews producing natural gas from the Marcellus Shale. The gas-rich formation, heralded as a major future domestic energy source, runs from the Southern Tier through the Appalachian Basin.
Rain for Rent, with 58 branches nationwide, anticipates opening number 59 on an 8-acre parcel on the Akraturn campus on Route 11, pending approval by the Kirkwood Town Planning Board, said Mathew Stevenson, construction coordinator for Rain for Rent.
"We would operate tomorrow, if they let us," Stevenson said.
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