OMG - 0.49% of other “stuff”! This is SOOOOOOO much worse than even global warming! (Carbon Dioxide is about 0.04% of air).
I wonder if any of these oil and gas guys have filled a class with it and drank it to show how safe it is? I recall as a kid some guy did that with the raw outflow from the Taconite (iron ore) mill in Minnesota that was running into lake Superior. Although I don’t think I would drink it, I would be just fine with it running through the shale 5,000 feet below my feet.
I don’t recommend drinking every combination of fracking fluid, but some are better than others.
Clean fracking: Moving to replace chemicals
http://money.cnn.com//2011/11/16/news/economy/clean_fracking/index.htm?section=money_topstories&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fmoney_topstories+%28Top+Stories%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher
November 16, 2011
Last summer a Halliburton executive did the unthinkable: He took a big ol’ swig of hydraulic fracturing fluid.
No, he didn’t have a death wish. And yes, he appears to be doing just fine. He did it to prove a point: fracking fluid need not be toxic.
What the exec drank was a new formulation of fracking fluid made with ingredients sourced from the food industry rather than the chemical industry.
As public concern over the controversial practice of fracking mounts, Halliburton and a host of other companies are racing to fill a major void: finding a way of cracking rock to unlock oil and natural gas that is also environmentally benign.
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CleanStim® Hydraulic Fracturing Fluid System
http://www.halliburton.com/ps/default.aspx?pageid=4184&navid=93&AdType=JPTCSTC