Fracking generates huge quantities of wastewater, containing known and suspected carcinogens. The proposed rules lack critical safeguards to protect public health and the environment.Fracking Fact Sheet – Wastewater

Spills occur during the injection of fracking fluids, as well as during their capture, transportation and disposal. It’s important to plan ahead for spills to mitigate their impact. The proposed rules do not adequately address the real threat of spills. Fracking Fact Sheet – Spills

Fracking generates millions of gallons of wastewater that includes carcinogens, toxins and other contaminants. The proposed rules allow for storage in open pits prior to transport to treatment facilities. These open pits have been problematic in other states. Fracking Fact Sheet – Open Pits

Fracking industrializes the landscape and can cause long-term contamination. Fracking Fact Sheet – Long Term Contamination

Fracking fluid contains many chemicals, some of which are known carcinogens. Citizens deserve to know what’s being injected into the ground below their water supplies. Fracking Fact Sheet – Chemical Disclosure

Fracking has the potential to adversely impact groundwater. North Carolina should ensure the permittees collect extensive baseline data on drinking water quality. Fracking Fact Sheet – Baseline Testing_REV

Toxic air emissions from fracking operations are a major threat to public health and the environment, but state regulators and the proposed package of rules fail to take the most basic actions to address air pollution. Fracking Fact Sheet – Air Emissions

North Carolina Environmental Partnership Launches New TV Ads Spotlighting Western North

Carolina State Representatives Tim Moffitt and Michelle Presnell for Fracking Votes.

ASHEVILLE, NC (June 24, 2014) – The North Carolina Environmental Partnership announced today

that two Western North Carolina State Representatives – Reps. Tim Moffitt (Asheville) and Michelle

Presnell (Burnsville) – are being held accountable for their support of new laws to rush fracking into North

Carolina.

The coalition of groups represented by the North Carolina Environmental Partnership that has been

waging an aggressive campaign to raise public awareness about state senators who vote against clean

water safeguards is now expanding its reach to the NC House of Representatives. The campaign has

featured massive television ad buys and direct mail focusing on a handful of senators – Chad Barefoot,

Wesley Meredith, Ronald Rabin and Trudy Wade – primarily for their efforts to fast-track the rule-making

process and lift the statewide moratorium on fracking. Now the so-called “Fracking Crew” will feature

Reps Moffit and Presnell, who represent an area where some fracking may be considered.

In addition to the House Members from Western North Carolina, NC Environmental Partnership will begin

airing additional TV spots this week looking at the recent anti-environmental votes of lawmakers from The

Sandhills area of North Carolina, Reps. Mike Stone (Sanford) and Jamie Boles (Southern Pines).

Luis Martinez, senior attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) in Asheville, said:

“Our campaign holds accountable legislators who put polluters before public health and the

environment. More people now know that fracking threatens drinking water and that chemicals

used in fracking cause cancer. And our polling shows that the majority of North Carolinians

oppose the rush to frack without proper safeguards in place.”

Mary Maclean Asbill, senior attorney at the Southern Environmental Law Center and N.C. Environmental

Partnership representative, said: “These House representatives’ votes are out of sync with their

constituency, and out of sync with the views of most North Carolinians, who value clean air and

clean water above the bottom line of the fracking industry. The NC Environmental Partnership

was formed to hold elected officials accountable for helping polluters instead of NC families.

Representatives Presnell and Moffitt voted to fast-track fracking, and their constituents who have

legitimate concerns about this reckless form of drilling deserve to know that their representatives

are leading the charge on this.”

RESOURCES

Link to the new television ads highlighting State Representatives Moffit and Presnell at the N.C.

Environmental Partnership website at: http://northcarolinaenvironmentalpartnership.org/media/.

Link to more information, including detailed survey information on fracking in North Carolina here: http://

northcarolinaenvironmentalpartnership.org/wp-content/uploads/NCEP-Fracking-Memo.pdf.

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ABOUT THE GROUPS

The Southern Environmental Law Center is a regional nonprofit using the power of the law to protect

the health and environment of the Southeast (Virginia, Tennessee, North and South Carolina, Georgia,

and Alabama). Founded in 1986, SELC’s team of nearly 60 legal and policy experts represent more than

100 partner groups on issues of climate change and energy, air and water quality, forests, the coast and

wetlands, transportation, and land use.www.SouthernEnvironment.org

The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) is an international nonprofit environmental organization

with more than 1.4 million members and online activists. Since 1970, our lawyers, scientists, and other

environmental specialists have worked to protect the world’s natural resources, public health, and the

environment. In addition to its Asheville, N.C. office, NRDC has offices in New York City, Washington,

D.C., Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Bozeman, MT and Beijing. Visit us at www.nrdc.org and

follow us on Twitter @NRDC.

CONTACT: Patrick Mitchell for North Carolina Environmental Partnership at (703) 276-3266 or

pmitchell@hastingsgroup.com.

North Carolina Environmental Partnership Launches New TV Ads Spotlighting North Carolina

State Representatives Mike Stone (Sanford) and Jamie Boles (Southern Pines) for Fracking Votes.

RALEIGH (June 24, 2014) – The North Carolina Environmental Partnership announced today that two

Sandhills area State Representatives – Reps. Mike Stone and Jamie Boles – are being held accountable

for their support of new laws to bring fracking to North Carolina.

The coalition of groups represented by the North Carolina Environmental Partnership that has been

waging an aggressive campaign to raise public awareness about state senators who vote against clean

water safeguards is now expanding its reach to the NC House of Representatives. The campaign has

featured massive television ad buys and direct mail focusing on a handful of senators – Chad Barefoot,

Wesley Meredith, Ronald Rabin and Trudy Wade – primarily for their efforts to fast-track the rule-making

process and lift the statewide moratorium on fracking. Now the so-called “Fracking Crew” will feature

Reps Stone and Boles, who represent this area that is ground zero for this harmful process.

In addition to the House Members from Sandhills, NC Environmental Partnership will begin airing

additional TV spots this week looking at the recent anti-environmental votes of lawmakers from western

North Carolina, Reps. Tim Moffitt and Michelle Presnell.

Mary Maclean Asbill, senior attorney at the Southern Environmental Law Center and N.C. Environmental

Partnership representative, said: “These House representatives’ votes are out of sync with their

constituency, and out of sync with the views of most North Carolinians, who value clean air and

clean water above the bottom line of the fracking industry. The NC Environmental Partnership

was formed to hold elected officials accountable for helping polluters instead of NC families.

Representatives Stone and Boles voted to fast-track fracking, and their constituents who have

legitimate concerns about this reckless form of drilling deserve to know that their representatives

are leading the charge on this.”

Luis Martinez, senior attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) in Asheville, said:

“Our campaign holds accountable legislators who put polluters before public health and the

environment. More people now know that fracking threatens drinking water and that chemicals

used in fracking cause cancer. And our polling shows that the majority of North Carolinians

oppose the rush to frack without proper safeguards in place.”

RESOURCES

Link to the new television ads highlighting State Representatives Stone and Boles at the N.C.

Environmental Partnership website at: http://northcarolinaenvironmentalpartnership.org/media/.

Link to more information, including detailed survey information on fracking in North Carolina here: http://

northcarolinaenvironmentalpartnership.org/wp-content/uploads/NCEP-Fracking-Memo.pdf.

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ABOUT THE GROUPS

The Southern Environmental Law Center is a regional nonprofit using the power of the law to protect

the health and environment of the Southeast (Virginia, Tennessee, North and South Carolina, Georgia,

and Alabama). Founded in 1986, SELC’s team of nearly 60 legal and policy experts represent more than

100 partner groups on issues of climate change and energy, air and water quality, forests, the coast and

wetlands, transportation, and land use.www.SouthernEnvironment.org

The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) is an international nonprofit environmental organization

with more than 1.4 million members and online activists. Since 1970, our lawyers, scientists, and other

environmental specialists have worked to protect the world’s natural resources, public health, and the

environment. In addition to its Asheville, N.C. office, NRDC has offices in New York City, Washington,

D.C., Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Bozeman, MT and Beijing. Visit us at www.nrdc.org and

follow us on Twitter @NRDC.

CONTACT: Patrick Mitchell for North Carolina Environmental Partnership at (703) 276-3266 or

pmitchell@hastingsgroup.com.