A good thing.
Posted on 10/06/2009 4:54:37 AM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing
A call to drill for oil and natural gas in the narrow strip of Florida-controlled waters in the Gulf of Mexico will be the subject of a forum late this month at Florida State University. Rep. Dean Cannon, R-Winter Park, wants the Legislature to lift the ban on offshore rigs in state waters and give the Cabinet authority to consider drilling applications. Cannon’s proposal came as a surprise earlier this year -- it died in the waning days of the legislative session -- and he’s now waging a campaign to win support for a drilling bill he plans to file for either a possible special session in coming months or the regular session in March. The forum, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Oct. 28, will feature three experts in favor of drilling and three opposed.
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FSU is doing a pretty good job of drilling Bobby Bowden this week too.
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A good thing.
Norway was recently rated the #1 country in the world for quality of life - they exprot oil and are #2 in the exprot of fish, behind China. We have more miles of shoreline than Norway yet we are not drilling or raising enough fish to export. They seem to have a good program - no environmental harm from two important and valuable ocean based industies. No politician should run away from drill here drill now and ocean management using the Norweigen model. JOBS JOBS JOBS
That’s good to hear you and yours are making advances against the whacko environmentalists.
Sometimes it seems like any time an international model gets it right, those are the ones our politicians and media DONT want to emulate.
(forgive me for that Lord and help the starving pygmies in New Guinea)
And now the FSU trustees are putting pressure on Bowden to step down. To that, I say, “NOOOOOOOOOOO!”
LOL! I get your drift.
LOL!! Couldn’t agree more. At gator country.com they’ve been saying that for at least 5 years. Let the good times roll, dadgummit!
The trouble with the elected republicans is that too many of them have no sense of “selling” they are mostly lawyers and guys like Steele are so dense that they talk themselves into corners - “new Acorn leader is doing a good job.” Is it any wonder Steele didn’t get elected to the Senate. He is a poor campigner and the rest of the folks in congress are no better.
He conservatively estimated that these drilling leases and revenues — in the Gulf of Mexico, not off the East Coast —could generate at least $1.5 billion per year for education, health care and the fiscally struggling Florida Forever land conservation program.
“We anticipate this will be just like the other Gulf states are doing. It's a source of revenue to lower the tax burden,” Haridopolos said during a 90-minute town hall meeting Monday night in Viera.
The Merritt Island Republican is expected to be president of the Florida Senate from 2010 to 2012. He said he is working on offshore drilling proposals with Dean Cannon, a Winter Park Republican and the projected next House Speaker.
During the next six months, Haridopolos said lawmakers would conduct town hall meetings across the Sunshine State to gauge reaction to the proposal, much as he did for Amendment 5 property tax reform a couple years ago.
No meeting timetable has been set.
Haridopolos outlined his offshore drilling stance in response to a question from Melbourne Beach resident Paul Ott.”
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From an Aug 25 Florida Today article entitled “State senator backs drilling off Gulf Coast” and excerpted from allbusiness.com:
http://www.allbusiness.com/legal/tax-law-tax-reform/12734754-1.html
I just checked his website, there's no reference to this issue and I've seen nothing about it since. He must have received more negative feedback than positive — file Florida offshore drilling under “back burner”.
BTTT
Drill here....Drill now!
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