We will soon find out thanks to an item placed on the Budget and Finance Committee's September 9th agenda by Katy Sorenson:RESOLUTION SUPPORTING THE CONTINUATION OF THE FEDERAL MORATORIUM ON OFFSHORE OIL AND GAS DRILLING TO PROTECT FLORIDA’S COAST AND TOURISM-RELATED INDUSTRY
Here is who is on this Committee:
Joe A. Martinez (11) Chair; Carlos A. Gimenez (7) Vice Chair; Commissioners Jose "Pepe" Diaz (12), Katy Sorenson (8), Rebeca Sosa (6), and Javier D. Souto (10)
This should fly like a lead balloon. I don't think Sorenson will even get a second on this one. What do you think?
P.S. No African Americans on this Committee?
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Katy deserves props for this. It's been pathetic to see the business and tourism folks coddling with David Mica and the American Petroleum Institute buggers. As well, most other politicos hiding in the trench not willing to risk political donations from the big PAC's or the ire of the rabid folks who seeing a vote against drilling as a vote against McCain. Absolutely disgusting how Florida's treasures her reefs and coastal waters and going to suffer.
As much I like McCain's story, I lost ALL respect for him with this offshore drilling nonsense. It does absolutely nothing to reduce fuel prices or provide energy independence it simply gives people a false sense of a problem being solved. It won't the government reports CLEARLY show that. This is going to come back and haunt Florida.
BTW - it's NOT about the oil spills. Check this out for what the worst case scenario can really be - mud pouring from the earth non-stop: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/06/sidoarjos_manmade_mud_volcano.html.
Do the homework and the simple logic that when you drill 11,000ft or more into the earth alot of nasty sh*t is going to come up. Multiply that by thousands of wells (4000 operating in the western Gulf) and all the exploratory wells they need to drill to get a "good" well and you have TONS & TONS of toxic drilling muds, cuttings and brine water legally dumped in waters near drilling platforms.
Compliments of Mother Nature and her Gulf Loop to Gulfstream current, drilling will run that nasty junk right through America's only living coral reef and right to our shores. Oh yeah, if you've ever been to a construction site and seen all the crap that lies around, a rig is an island of a construction project and we'll be finding debris from barrels to lunch boxes on our beaches.
www.dontrigflorida.org - Go Katy!
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