Misleading Panel Member Response

See below a response by NRDC that notes: "...the Advisory Panel on High-Volume Hydraulic Fracturing was given a narrow scope of work, focusing primarily on identifying resources that would be needed if (emphasis in the original) a fracking program were to move forward in New York State (emphasis added).

NRDC added: "As such, the Panel has had no role to play with regard to the on-going health study being conducted by the Department of Health (emphasis added)."

DEC's news release about the Hydraulic Fracturing Advisory Panel makes it clear that NRDC did not tell the whole truth about the Panel's mandate: http://www.toxicstargeting.com/node/37325

Advisory Panel members are also "charged with:" "developing recommendations to avoid and mitigate impacts to local governments and communities."

Note that Assemblywoman Lupardo references this mandate in the last paragraph of her letter.