Clean fracking: Moving to replace chemicals
http://money.cnn.com/2011/11/16/news/economy/clean_fracking/index.htm
http://money.cnn.com/2011/11/16/news/economy/clean_fracking/index.htm
"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."