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All right. so remember how fracking works. they drill a deep hole and then pump in a mixture of water, sand, and chemicals at a pressure so intense it actually cracks the rock deep underground. and among the chief concerns about fracking, besides its tendency to appear to cause earthquakes, is the potential health hazard posed by fracking fluid. well, there's now a bill in north carolina that makes it a crime to disclose what's in that stuff. a crime. if you say, well, it's x parts water and x parts hydrochloric acid and so on, you will have committed a crime in north carolina if this bill is ...

It -- normally you don't vote on the bill in committee and send it straight to the floor, especially a bill as controversial as a fracking bill, and that's what happened yesterday. straight from finance to the floor. the process was bad, and the substance was horrible. >> the substance also -- it's unclear to me that it is even constitutional under the first amendment. i mean, we're at the case that say one of our producers or i or one of my colleagues were to find out what's in the fluid and publish it in the newspaper, it seems to me there's a pretty strong first amendment claim that they ca...

So please join men a toast off to the freedom that all of you in hydraulic fracking thing to america. >> would you drink fracking fluid? >> sure. >> if you want item by item in terms of what the components are, then i would take a drink. >> the point of seeing executive and politicians drinking fracking fluid was deception, an attempt to convince the public there is no harm from the process of hydraulically fracturing a shale gas or shale oil well. it is deceptive in the sense that it is the least of the problems. what goes down the well, is not nearly as important as what comes up the well. s...

Are, then i would take a drink. >> the point of seeing executives and politicians drinking fracking fluid was deception. it was it was an attempt to convince the public that there is no harm from a the process of hydraulically fracturing a shale gas or shale oil. it's deceptive in the sense that it's the least of the problems. what goes down the well is not nearly as important as what comes up the well. so the principle constituents of flowback from shale gas consist of salts and naturally occurring radioactive materials that have been stored safely underground for hundreds of millions of year...

Our colleagues traveled to western pennsylvania to see how one community is experiencing the promise and some of the perils of fracking. they started out actually listening in on an industry event in houston. >> i just happen to have a glass of halliburton's clean stem green frack fluid. i would like to mix a little cocktail here before you all tonight. >> there have been some very notable escapades in public where people from the oil and gas industry and even governor of colorado has in public consumed fracking fluid with no effects. >> let's toast to one of the greatest technology advancemen...