Florida Frackers Not Giving Up

Florida GOP House members say the possibility of a fracking ban is dead for the 2017 Legislative Session. here

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“You never say never, but now we’re saying it looks like that will be next year,” Florida GOP Mike Miller

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Florida Fracker Ray Rodrigues says that a scientific study is required. Rodrigues has previously said that it would be “foolish” to ban the practice without any scientific evidence. 

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More about Florida Frackers here

Don't be fooled, it has already started here

Floridians Defeat The Florida Frackers

Thanks to Floridians like you, communities throughout our state will be able to protect their land and water by banning fracking. Earlier today, the sponsor of the dangerous fracking bill, 

Florida Fracker Garrett Richter withdrew SB 318 from the Senate Appropriations Committee saying 
"I didn't have the votes."
Give yourselves a hand Florida. This didn't happen by accident. Thousands of Floridians from every corner of our state spoke loudly and clearly, putting daily pressure on their elected representatives in the legislature. It worked. here

Florida Frackers

Remember these guys next time you vote. here

Spineless Florida Frackers Want To Sabotage Florida’s Future

There is no reason to compromise Florida’s scarce water supplies to help Big Oil frack. If senators want to sabotage Florida’s future, there’s no better way than to pass Senate Bill 318 – a sure recipe for disaster! Voters should ask senators why they continue to ignore their constituency and vote for a bill not in 

Florida’s best interest.

 54 percent of Floridians want a ban

One senate chair limited those testifying on fracking to 30 seconds, warning not to talk about “fracking.” (Don’t bother him with facts – he’s not interested.) Many yielded their seconds to Pennsylvanians who had come to enlighten legislators on how fracking had devastated their beautiful state.

here

Florida Frackers Attack The Everglades

Florida Frackers

The Everglades,

The Keys,

Migrating Birds. Tourists,

Fracking?

here

Presidente Obama Welcome To Miami

Pres. you could not have come visit us at a better time. The Florida Democratic Party sucks. You want your Legacy to stay intact, you need to stop supporting Debbie Wasserman Schultz and have a very serious talk with her. You guys are trying to cram an Ex-Republican (Murphy) down our throats. Florida INC. has kept us from your Obamacare, we don't have high speed rail between Tampa and Orlando that you wanted to buy us, they are polluting our water, the Florida Frackers are doing everything they can to destroy our way lilfe. Florida DOT is attacking Tampa. While you are here talk to our leader Susan Smith and please see if you can talk the Mayor of Miami Beach into running for governor. here 
Again, welcome to Miami. Lets hope our grand-kids can enjoy it too. 

Dems Join Florida Frackers

The Florida Senate gave preliminary approval Friday to a bill sought by Florida Power & Light to allow the company to charge customers for investments in natural gas fracking operations in other states. 

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Supporters of the bill

 Democratic Leader Oscar Braynon of Miami and incoming Senate Democratic Leader Jeff Clemens of Lake Worth.

Other Dems voting for the bill in committee with Braynon and Clemens were Sens. Lauren Book of Plantation, Perry Thurston of Fort Lauderdale, and Bill Montford of Tallahassee. here

Florida Frackers: Garrett Richter

Oil and gas drillers are pushing bills, cloaked as protections, to expand fracking in Florida. The Florida panther, its habitat and our water supply are all in danger. We must act now to protect our state from the ravages of fracking.

Contact your legislators and Governor Rick Scott today, and tell them 

to kill the bad fracking bills!

here

Time To Stop The Florida Frackers

Time is running out for the people of Florida to let their legislators know they expect them to protect Florida from a fracking proposal that will threaten our health, our water supply, our property values, our right to govern our counties and our quality of life. here

Florida Frackers Not Giving Up

Bills that would allow energy companies to frack in Florida died last spring, when the regular legislative session imploded over health-care issues.

But they’re back.

The two Republican lawmakers who sponsored the legislation, Sen. Garrett Richter of Naples and Rep. Ray Rodrigues of Estero, have filed new bills (SB 318 and HB 191) that would amend state laws on the exploration and production of oil and gas in the state.

here

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Democratic lawmakers, meanwhile, have put forward their own bills to ban fracking. The legislation (SB 166 and HB 19) is sponsored by Sens. Darren Soto of Orlando, Dwight Bullard of Miami and Jeff Clemens of Lake Worth and Reps. Evan Jenne of Dania Beach and Lori Berman of Lantana. Going a step further, Sen. Jeremy Ring, D-Parkland, wants voters to consider banning fracking through a constitutional amendment.

Activists Confront Florida Frackers In Ft. Myers

On April 2, activists confronted several prominent climate change denial and 

pro-fracking organizations at a 

“Free Market Environmentalism” 

conference at Florida Gulf Coast 

University in Ft. Myers. here

The keynote speech was entitled. Friends Don’t Let Friends Ban Fracking. The conference was sponsored by the Koch Brothers.

Florida Frackers Stay Out Of Hillsborough County

Florida Senate Appropriations Chair

Tom Lee’s home county has just come out against a fracking bill that will get its next hearing in that committee; on Wednesday the Hillsborough County Commission passed a resolution to oppose the bill to study and regulate hydraulic fracturing at the same time it forbids local governments from banning the drilling practice, as many have done. here

Florida Frackers: Counties Fight Back

Dozens of Florida cities and counties oppose a plan to give the state control over the oil and gas exploration process known as fracking. Two Republican legislators, Rep. Ray Rodrigues of Estero and Sen. Garrett Richter of Naples, have proposed bills that would give the state authority to regulate oil and gas exploration, production, processing, storage and transportation. here

Sierra Club Phone Bank to Stop SB1290

Hunting, oil drilling, timbering and farming in our State Parks?
SB 1290 would remove key environmental protections from Florida State Parks and is headed to the Senate floor next week.
 Strut your power! You beat
 the Florida Frackers,
 you can do this. Save Our State Parks. here

Florida Frackers

All Florida GOP
Thad Altman, R-Melbourne 

Don Gaetz, R-Crestview 

Bill Galvano, R-Bradenton 

Rene Garcia, R-Hialeah 

Denise Grimsley, R-Sebring 

Alan Hays, R-Umatilla 

Garrett Richter, R-Naples

 David Simmons, R-Altamonte Springs

Sen. Tom Lee, R-Brandon

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Lizbeth Benacquisto: Also this one is suspected to have only voted against in order to bring it back up. So be sure to call on her to publicly denounce fracking or be subjected to treatment as a snake. 

Florida Frackers Win

The Florida state House passed a controversial measure to regulate fracking, despite significant opposition from Democrats who said the practice could harm the state’s natural resources. here

Bay County Commissioners Fighting The Florida Frackers

The County Commission wants to make concrete their declaration that fracking will never occur in Bay County. here

GOP Florida Frackers Pass Fracking Bill

Forget about solar, forget about wind, forget about ocean currents and turbines. here 

Stop The Florida Frackers - Call Your State Senator

Sen. Joseph Abruzzo

850-487-5025

Sen. Thad Altman

850-487-5016

Sen. Aaron Bean

850-487-5004

Sen. Lizbeth Benacquisto

850-487-5030

Sen. Rob Bradley

850-487-5007

Sen. Jeff Brandes

850-487-5022

Sen. Oscar Braynon

850-487-5036

Sen. Dwight Bullard

850-487-5039

Sen. Jeff Clemens

850-487-5027

Sen. Charlie Dean

850-487-5005

Sen. Nancy Detert

850-487-5028

Sen. Miguel Diaz De La Portilla

850-487-5040

Sen. Greg Evers

850-487-5002

Sen. Anitere Flores

850-487-5037

Sen. Don Gaetz

850-487-5001

Sen. Bill Galvano

850-487-5026

Sen. Rene Garcia

850-487-5038

Sen. Andy Gardiner

850-487-5013

Sen. Audrey Gibson

850-487-5009

Sen. Denise Grimsley

850-487-5021

Sen. Alan Hays

850-487-5011

Sen. Dorothy Hukill

850-487-5008

Sen. Travis Hutson

850-487-5006

Sen. Arthenia Joyner

850-487-5019

Sen. Jack Latvala

850-487-5020

Sen. Tom Lee

850-487-5024

Sen. John Legg

850-487-5017

Sen. Gwen Margolis

850-487-5035

Sen. Bill Montford

850-487-5003

Sen. Joe Negron

850-487-5032

Sen. Garrett Richter

850-487-5023

Sen. Jeremy Ring

850-487-5029

Sen. Maria Lorts Sachs

850-487-5034

Sen. David Simmons

850-487-5010

Sen. Wilton Simpson

850-487-5018

Sen. Christopher Smith

850-487-5031

Sen. Eleanor Sobel

850-487-5033

Sen. Darren Soto

850-487-5014

Sen. Kelli Stargel

850-487-5015

Sen. Geri Thompson

850-487-5012

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 Find your State Senator by clicking here.

Call your State Senator at his/her Tallahassee office, say that you live in the district, that you vote, and ask him/her to vote NO on fracking bill SB 318. (Leave a message if no one answers and call back during business hours.)

Florida Frackers Attack On Environment Continues

A Senate committee last week approved a bill that would make it easier for companies to use fracking technology to drill for oil and gas in the state. here

Florida Frackers

File bills that would prevent communities from regulating fracking.

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On Sept. 17, Sen. Garrett Richter, R-Naples, introduced SB 318 (aka, "Regulation of Oil and Gas Resources"). The bill summary is completely blunt about what it's proposing: "Preempting the regulation of all matters relating to the exploration, development, production, processing, storage, and transportation of oil and gas."

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Meanwhile, over in the House, Rep. Ray Wesley Rodriques, R-Fort Myers, filed a bill the same day that would do essentially the same thing as SB 318. Rodrigues' bill, HB 191, declares that it's the state's job to regulate all things relating to the oil and gas industry, "to the exclusion of all existing and future ordinances or regulations relating thereto adopted by any county, municipality, or other political subdivision of the state.

Hey, Ft. Myers and Naples. We got your back!