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On the eve of the 3rd and pivotal Republican presidential primary debate in Miami, Florida, former Governor and Ambassador Nikki Haley released a scathing energy attack ad against Florida Gov Ron DeSantis, accusing him of being “against fracking” and being “against drilling” for oil. The video was cut after Ambassador Haley first accused Gov. DeSantis […]
By Rep. Gus Bilirakis Americans are continuing to experience the negative effects of radical, leftist policies that have fueled record inflation, gas prices, and global strife. There has been an 81% increase in gas prices since President Biden took office. Analysts predict American families will have to spend an extra $2,000 on gas this year. These […]
An oil company has at least temporarily withdrawn applications for permits that could have been a step toward drilling for oil and gas in Southwest Florida’s Big Cypress National Preserve. In a letter Tuesday to the state Department of Environmental Protection, representatives of Burnett Oil Co. pointed to an ongoing review by the National Park […]
Florida’s congressional delegation is 100% in agreement with banning offshore oil drilling off of the state’s coast, and the two legislators pushing the ban are Republican Senators Marco Rubio and Rick Scott.
The oil & gas industry is the heart and soul of the Louisiana and Texas economies, so any ban on drilling off the coasts of these two states would be catastrophic to Americans and the national economy— tens of thousands of jobs would be lost.
After facing significant bipartisan push back from Florida’s entire congressional delegation over potentially allowing drilling off the coast of Florida, President Donald Trump announced that he would be extending the oil drilling moratorium along the “gulf coast and expanding it to Florida’s Atlantic coast.”
Drilling of the Florida coast is a non-starter with every single member of the Florida congressional delegation, so any effort by the Trump administration to push for offshore drilling off the Florida coast will be met with significant opposition from both sides of the political aisle.
With the House of Representatives having passed a permanent ban on offshore oil drilling, it remains to be seen what the U.S. Senate does with the measure, and whether President Donald Trump decides to veto it, or not.
The U.S. House of Representatives has passed the Protecting and Securing Florida’s Coastline Act of 2019, a measure sponsored by Rep. Francis Rooney (R) that would make the 2006 moratorium on offshore oil drilling permanent along the coast of Florida.
A proposal backed by Gov. Ron DeSantis to ban “fracking” in Florida appears dead for this legislative session. Sen. Ben Albritton, a Wauchula Republican who sponsored a fracking-ban bill (SB 7064), said Thursday evening he doesn’t think the measure has much of a chance of passing with just more than a week remaining in the 60-day session
The court earlier ordered the Florida Department of Environmental Protection to issue a permit to the real estate company, but the state has been fighting it, and has denied Kanter the permit to drill.
With the idea getting support from Gov. Ron DeSantis, a House Republican has filed a proposal to ban the oil- and gas-drilling process known as “fracking” in Florida. Rep. Heather Fitzenhagen, R-Fort Myers, filed the bill (HB 239) on Thursday, the same day DeSantis released a series of environmental proposals that included opposition to fracking. […]
The chief judge of the 1st District Court of Appeal appeared skeptical Tuesday of a decision by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection to block a Broward County landowner from drilling an exploratory oil well in the Everglades. A three-judge panel of the appellate court heard arguments in an appeal by Kanter Real Estate, LLC, […]
National security: Why depend on foreign, often hostile, sources of energy when we have the potential to secure our own resources here at home?
The hearing comes amid continued debate over plans by President Donald Trump’s administration to allow oil and gas drilling in federal waters off various...
Prior to the hearing, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection submitted its opposition to the proposal.
Nelson took a page out of the Trump Twitter playbook and unleashed a barrage of tweets questioning Zinke’s “off the table,” and why the courtesy
“Given Florida’s gulf coast is a world-renowned tourist attraction and the base of important military training and weapons testing, I have long opposed drilling off Florida’s Gulf Coast.