Florida House approves oil drilling bill, but the Senate did not listen
Tallahassee - Gov. Charlie Crist and Senate leaders put the brakes on the account to open the door to oil drilling off the coast near the Florida coast Monday as well as won overwhelming approval in the fast-track vote in the House.
Moments after the House voted 70-43 - only two Democrats in support and only three against the Republicans - the Senate budget boss JD Alexander said the idea for reporters to keep this session. Senate President Jeff Atwater stressed that the message at the end of the day.
''I am not prepared for it,''said Atwater, R-North Palm Beach. `` This is really much important. It is very difficult to imagine that in the end game for this session.''
Crist said Monday he was zaniepokojony''spóźnienia on the side of godzinę''i''''bliskość plan to give the President and the Cabinet to adopt proposals by the drilling of oil and gas from three to 10 miles from Florida's beaches.
Senate rejection is a major disappointment for Rep. Dean Cannon, the Winter Park Republican appointed to the House speaker in 2010. He agreed to support the proposal on behalf of a group called the Florida Energy Associates, who spent months doing advance work in this case.
Members SECRET
The group refuses to identify its members say, except they contain the independent oil men of the oil and gas exploration in the waters of Florida.
Cannon unveiled the idea in the late session changes in the last week, but the group was working on the idea since December - developing and changing the language of hiring public relations firms to promote it, research and polling company to come with economist estimates.
The Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink and former U.S. Sen. Bob Graham came out in opposition to this plan, the Associated Industries of Florida bought television ad time on behalf of the group to promote it.
Cannon said Monday it is ready to give up.
''Five days a week 9 is a much longer period of time,''he said. `` Listen, people of any comments at the end of the week 9. I think that we will have to deal with it as they see fit.''
Environmentalists have been strongly critical of Cannon's position. ''This is an idea brought by a Texas oil companies, who want the right to drill in Florida and it is doing so on the cheap,''said Eric Draper, lobbyist for the Florida Audubon Society.
To avoid criticism, House leaders added a number of sweeteners: promising to use $ 25 million oil and gas revenue of solar energy rebates, $ 50 million to universities for research in the field of energy and education, 25 million dollars for the environment and 25 million dollars for oil and gas `` training academy.''
And to counter rumors that the Chinese were for the Florida Energy Associates, the Board adopted an amendment requiring that they must be established and refineries in the U.S.
House vote went down along the lines Reps. Michelle Rehwinkel-Vasilinda from Tallahassee and Debbie Boyd High Springs only Democrats to support it. Three Republicans opposed it: Bill Reps. Galvano of Bradenton, Ed Hooper of Clearwater and Jim Frishe of Belleair Bluffs.
Democrats raised SPECTER spills of oil, which in 1993 in a conflict between the oil freighter and two tugs means of barges in Tampa Bay that spilled more than 32,000 gallons of fuel, diesel fuel and gasoline and about 330,000 gallons of heavy fuel oil. Beaches were closed for a week and birds, sea turtles and shellfish beds have been injured. ''We are gambling with the environment. We are gambling with our tourism economy,''said Rep. Richard Steinberg, a Miami Beach Democrat.
OPPOSITION
Rep. Mark Pafford, D-West Palm Beach, said, `` Bill wipes the two decades of bipartisan opposition to oil drilling and move out of where we should go, and that is on renewable energy sources.''
Rep. Erik Fresen, a Miami Republican, urged his colleagues to support the measures because the revenue from the project provides for the application of oil and gas leasing and drilling would create thousands of jobs. ''It does not pose a threat to Florida,''Cannon said. `` They do not represent a threat to anything. Account, in fact, do not allow any drilling activity actually occurs. . . What account is not allowed to start the conversation.''
Moments after the House voted 70-43 - only two Democrats in support and only three against the Republicans - the Senate budget boss JD Alexander said the idea for reporters to keep this session. Senate President Jeff Atwater stressed that the message at the end of the day.
''I am not prepared for it,''said Atwater, R-North Palm Beach. `` This is really much important. It is very difficult to imagine that in the end game for this session.''
Crist said Monday he was zaniepokojony''spóźnienia on the side of godzinę''i''''bliskość plan to give the President and the Cabinet to adopt proposals by the drilling of oil and gas from three to 10 miles from Florida's beaches.
Senate rejection is a major disappointment for Rep. Dean Cannon, the Winter Park Republican appointed to the House speaker in 2010. He agreed to support the proposal on behalf of a group called the Florida Energy Associates, who spent months doing advance work in this case.
Members SECRET
The group refuses to identify its members say, except they contain the independent oil men of the oil and gas exploration in the waters of Florida.
Cannon unveiled the idea in the late session changes in the last week, but the group was working on the idea since December - developing and changing the language of hiring public relations firms to promote it, research and polling company to come with economist estimates.
The Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink and former U.S. Sen. Bob Graham came out in opposition to this plan, the Associated Industries of Florida bought television ad time on behalf of the group to promote it.
Cannon said Monday it is ready to give up.
''Five days a week 9 is a much longer period of time,''he said. `` Listen, people of any comments at the end of the week 9. I think that we will have to deal with it as they see fit.''
Environmentalists have been strongly critical of Cannon's position. ''This is an idea brought by a Texas oil companies, who want the right to drill in Florida and it is doing so on the cheap,''said Eric Draper, lobbyist for the Florida Audubon Society.
To avoid criticism, House leaders added a number of sweeteners: promising to use $ 25 million oil and gas revenue of solar energy rebates, $ 50 million to universities for research in the field of energy and education, 25 million dollars for the environment and 25 million dollars for oil and gas `` training academy.''
And to counter rumors that the Chinese were for the Florida Energy Associates, the Board adopted an amendment requiring that they must be established and refineries in the U.S.
House vote went down along the lines Reps. Michelle Rehwinkel-Vasilinda from Tallahassee and Debbie Boyd High Springs only Democrats to support it. Three Republicans opposed it: Bill Reps. Galvano of Bradenton, Ed Hooper of Clearwater and Jim Frishe of Belleair Bluffs.
Democrats raised SPECTER spills of oil, which in 1993 in a conflict between the oil freighter and two tugs means of barges in Tampa Bay that spilled more than 32,000 gallons of fuel, diesel fuel and gasoline and about 330,000 gallons of heavy fuel oil. Beaches were closed for a week and birds, sea turtles and shellfish beds have been injured. ''We are gambling with the environment. We are gambling with our tourism economy,''said Rep. Richard Steinberg, a Miami Beach Democrat.
OPPOSITION
Rep. Mark Pafford, D-West Palm Beach, said, `` Bill wipes the two decades of bipartisan opposition to oil drilling and move out of where we should go, and that is on renewable energy sources.''
Rep. Erik Fresen, a Miami Republican, urged his colleagues to support the measures because the revenue from the project provides for the application of oil and gas leasing and drilling would create thousands of jobs. ''It does not pose a threat to Florida,''Cannon said. `` They do not represent a threat to anything. Account, in fact, do not allow any drilling activity actually occurs. . . What account is not allowed to start the conversation.''
