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Fracking Ban Gets Backing In Florida Senate
March 8, 2017
The Senate Environmental Preservation and Conservation Committee on Tuesday unanimously approved a measure that would ban hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” for oil and natural gas in Florida.
The American Petroleum Institute and its state affiliate spoke at length in opposition to the bill, arguing the drilling practice has not been scientifically proven to contaminate groundwater and that an outright ban may abridge property and mineral rights enshrined by a state law known as the Bert J. Harris Private Property Rights Protection Act.
Business groups also argued a fracking ban could inhibit energy production and harm the state economy.
But Sen. Dana Young, a Tampa Republican sponsoring the bill (SB 442), defended a ban on the controversial drilling practice.
“We are not foreclosing on any individual’s property rights. We are simply foreclosing one method which is incompatible with the geology of our state,” Young said while brandishing a piece of porous limestone found throughout much of Florida.
The measure has 14 co-sponsors, including four Republicans. It now moves to the Senate Environment and Natural Resources Appropriations Subcommittee. A House version (HB 451), filed by Rep. Alex Miller, R-Sarasota, and House Minority Leader Janet Cruz, D-Tampa, has not been heard in committee.
by The News Service of Florida
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10 Responses to “Fracking Ban Gets Backing In Florida Senate”
(Did it otherwise resemble an acorn or a pine cone? (Insert smile here))
Well what was it that hit me on the head yesterday if it was not a piece of the sky.
I cannot believe that anyone in this area would support terrorism. What a political party.
REGARDING:
“Why people think we can keep destroying planet earth just amazes me.”
Why people think the planet is being destroyed amazes me, or it did, years ago.
Now I just accept that brains can be washed into belieing anything.
David for unfalling skies
REGARDING:
“Isn’t this a pretty common practice in the North West FL Area ? i,e Jay and Flomaton, Pollard fields ?”*
No, there has not been any hydraulic fracturing in Jay, Flomaton or Pollard.
They produce out of sandstone, limestone or dolomite. Hydraulic fracturing is done to crack shale formations containing hydrocarbons: natural gas, petroleum. There are estimated to be billions of dollars worth of hydrocarbons throughout south Florida, going all the way to Cuba. They are capped with anhydrites which will not prop open and risk escape through the formations above them.
AND
“Been driving 50 years and I’ll send my money to Saudi Arabia if it means no fracking in FL.”
You would rather finance terrorists and dictators rather than risk your neighbors selling the riches under their land? Fascinating show of care.
David for good neighbors
Been driving 50 years and I’ll send my money to Saudi Arabia if it means no fracking in FL. Wait until the fracking stirs up our snakes, I feel another movie coming on.
Sink holes have been around long befote fracking started.
Anne do you drive a car or use energy from oil? Or do you just approve of oil drillng and fracking not in fl. I am for becomeing energy independent and putting america first. Drill baby drill and frack baby frack.
At the rate sink holes are showing up across this country, I am thankful we have people looking out for the state of FL. I would think our wetlands prove there is a delicate situation here. Once this is fractured, good luck! It is bad enough we have the off shore drilling going on and that, too, is for the $$. Why people think we can keep destroying planet earth just amazes me.
Ban banning fracking.we need to become energy independent and quit financing terroist with all that money that is going to the middle east.
Isn’t this a pretty common practice in the North West FL Area ? i,e Jay and Flomaton, Pollard fields ?