They are simply injecting it. Someone else is claiming that it's safe.

So, they're knowingly injecting toxic and carcinogenic chemicals into the water supply. Thank you for the clarification.

Toluene, found in pine oil: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T... [wikipedia.org]
Xylene, found in wood tar: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X... [wikipedia.org]

The pine trees in my back yard probably put as much of these in the creek as they detected in the paper.

You've convinced me.

We should just let the oil industry do whatever they want, because everything's toxic so what's the harm in a few hundred people getting wealthy beyond dreams of avarice before we all die?

And we're not talking about "parts per trillion" here. We're talking about concentrations up to 200 times the amount considered safe by the FDA.

Have you seen the nasty things salt does to metals and plants? Yet you happily eat that every day.

Because people have eaten salt for millennia without negative effects.

How long have people been drinking benzene, toluene, xylene, and ethylbenzene? Not to mention the substances that we don't know about that are in fracking fluid because they're "trade secrets".

http://www.sourcewatch.org/ind...

I don't know where you got the idea that the only levels of these chemicals showing up around fracking sites are in the parts per trillion. Because it's not true:

http://www.sourcewatch.org/ind...

It even syncs the disks before shutting down! v_v

Such a non-news story... omg, this this is "interesting" in so far as an odd tool that has little possible use(?)

YOU FIRST. If you're going to make them drink it, go for it yourself.

Why would I drink it? I'm not the one injecting it into the water supply and claiming it's safe as milk.

It is also approved by the U.S. FDA to be used as direct and indirect food additives

Now you've REALLY made me feel better!

So, basically, this stuff can be found pretty much EVERYWHERE and pretty much everywhere in or around a home.

Thank you. That makes me feel a LOT better.

The chemical, which is also commonly used in paint and cosmetics, is known to have caused tumors in rodents, though scientists have not determined if those carcinogenic properties translate to humans.

Those are some of my favorite weasel phrases in this type of article.

"Just because the chemical strips paint and causes mammals to dissolve into puddles of toxic goo does not mean it's unsafe for humans."

So drink up, Mr Koch.

I guess the logic goes that the fracking folks are evil

Yes, that's the logic.

If you're one of those freaks that cares about logic.

"You're drinking it wrong!"

since 2001, which was at least 14 years ago.

I hate it when people show off their mad math skills.

That's my thinking...

While some are claiming this means

I don't know who the "some" are in that sentence, but no one at the link provided in the story is saying this means NASA created a warp drive.

Stop, already.