Showing posts with label Stop Oil Drilling In The Gulf. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stop Oil Drilling In The Gulf. Show all posts

Thursday, August 10, 2023

Climate complacency is killing us


“My administration has not stopped or slowed U.S. oil production; quite the opposite,” President Biden boasted last fall. “We’re producing 12 million barrels of oil per day. And by the end of this year, we will be producing 1 million barrels a day, more than the day in which I took office. In fact, we’re on track for record oil production in 2023.”....MORE

Sunday, December 8, 2019

We cannot let them drill for oil in the Everglades

Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried calls it “outrageous” to allow oil-drilling on-shore in the Everglades and Apalachicola basin, a move that would put “precious water, popular beaches, and wildlife at great danger of being tainted 
by an oil spill.” HERE

Tuesday, December 3, 2019

Florida GOP not stopping on-shore oil drilling

State on the verge of allowing drilling in both the Everglades and 
Apalachicola basin.
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Oil companies have been far more successful with drilling on land in Florida. Under Gov. Ron DeSantis, the state’s Department of Environmental Protection has done little 
to stop them. HERE

Saturday, April 13, 2019

Florida Waters Auction Floridians Freaking Out

The Trump administration is considering auctioning off Florida’s coastal waters for oil and gas drilling. 

The idea is so politically toxic in Florida that past presidents haven’t even entertained it. HERE

Saturday, July 7, 2018

Offshore Oil Lobby is circling Florida like Sharks

In the Crazy Town political atmosphere we now inhabit, you can get whiplash trying to follow the bouncing slime balls. Or, in this case, tar balls. Because when it comes to bizarre politics, look no further than the Florida coast and the prospect of oil rigs offshore. here

Saturday, June 9, 2018

No Florida Offshore Oil Drilling

Some Florida Republican congressmen may be caving under pressure from Big Oil and their allies in Congress to allow our current ban on offshore drilling in the eastern Gulf of Mexico to expire in 2022. 
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Write Your Congressional Representatives: No Offshore Oil Drilling!

Saturday, July 8, 2017

7,000 Floridians opposing Trump move for oil drilling in Atlantic

More than 7,000 Floridians have signed petitions urging the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to deny permits for seismic airgun surveys. here

Sunday, April 30, 2017

Trump Orders Oil Drilling Off Florida Beaches

Trump issued an executive order that eventually could open millions of coastal acres off U.S. shores, including Florida's, to oil and gas drilling. here

Sunday, August 21, 2016

Cubans And Mexicans Coming To The Coast Of Florida - Not Good!

A few hundred miles from the west coast of Florida is a 7,700-square-mile area of the Gulf of Mexico known as the Eastern Gap, thought to be rich with oil but with no clear owner.
The U.S., Cuban and Mexican governments are now negotiating how to split the area among the three nations. Once that happens, each country can drill for oil in its allotted portion. here