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The Blog for Thursday, October 27, 2005

Oil Drilling ...

    is on the way:
    In what amounts to a congressional "do-over," a House committee Wednesday voted to give Florida and other coastal states a 125-mile buffer zone from oil and gas exploration but allow drilling in millions of acres of the eastern Gulf of Mexico where it is now prohibited.
    "House panel OKs drilling in eastern Gulf". The GOoPers aren't in lockstep on this:
    "Make no mistake, drilling for oil and gas off Florida's fragile coastline is a risky scheme that jeopardizes our environment and our economy," said Rep. Connie Mack, R-Fort Myers. "It won't reduce the price at the pump, and it won't reduce our dependency on foreign oil."

    But after years of voting as a bloc against drilling, the Florida delegation has fractured this year. Gov. Jeb Bush endorsed the measure that passed Wednesday and has said spiraling oil and gas prices and hurricane-related disruptions in energy supplies have caused a growing national pressure for drilling.
    And
    environmentalists have urged Florida lawmakers to continue fighting to keep new leases out of the entire eastern Gulf, saying spills can travel more than 125 miles and a future Congress could shrink the buffer.

    "Once the oil industry has broken the precedent of no drilling rigs anywhere off the coast of Florida, and they have built drilling infrastructure closer to our coast than ever before, the momentum to drill nearer and nearer to our shores may well be insurmountable," said Mark Ferrulo of the environmental group Florida PIRG (Public Interest Research Group).
    "Drilling backers applaud vote". See also "Offshore drilling proposal advances".

    The man behind the scheme: "The gatekeeper to gulf drilling" ("U.S. Rep. Richard Pombo is set on bringing it closer to our coasts.")

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