. >> with hydraulic fracturing set coing years, goverentse in the respond to this new technology will be crucial. but the lure of a new domestic energy source and the promise ob starved of investment may prove too powerful a combination to oppose. potential benefits need to be balanced against acceptable risk. for that, you need facts, like what's really in the 5 million gallons of fluid, includining the 7 75,000 gallonf chemicals, used to frack a single well? under the bush administration's energy policy act of 2005, companies didn't have to tell you. however, in september, 2010, 8 companies responded to an epa request for informaa . bpoena to get halliburton, the company that pioneered fracking, to respond. fracking chemicals are linked to bone, liver, and breast cancers, gastrointestinal, circulatory, respiratory, developmental, as well as brain and nervous system disorders, and they are in frack waste and may find theiway into drinking water and air. and it gets worse. today, waste from pennsylvania gas wells, waste that may also contain unacctable levels of radium, is routinely d