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House
Committee passes bill allowing drilling as close as 50 miles from shore.
Currently,
energy companies are prohibited from drilling 300 miles from Furthermore, the bill states that if the Legislature chooses to pass a constitutional amendment to ban drilling off our shores, our state will automatically lose its right to petition to block drilling between 50 and 100 miles. “Chairman
Pombo’s bill stacks the deck in favor of the energy companies and
offers little protection to the countless Floridians whose livelihoods
depend on our pristine beaches,” said Congressman Davis.
“Even if the Florida Legislature is able to jump through the
hoops required to ban drilling up to 100 miles off our coasts, experts
on ocean currents have testified to the risks posed by drilling
operations that close to our shores.
One spill could devastate Florida’s tourist based economy.
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