Florida leaders sound alarm over expanded offshore oil drilling

[Judi Lynn]

Florida leaders sound alarm over expanded offshore oil drilling
MAY 1, 2017 5:40 PM

U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., warned Monday that President Donald Trump’s embrace of offshore oil drilling poses a threat to Florida’s Atlantic coast — from both distant oil spills that ocean currents could spread on nearby beaches and from the possibility of drilling directly off the southeastern part of the state.

“The oil boys will not stop. They think that they have a friend in the White House, and this is the opening salvo,” Nelson said in response to a presidential executive order signed Friday that could result in more offshore drilling. “Even though it did not mention the eastern seaboard of Florida, just watch out, because it’s coming.”


Nelson appeared with U.S. Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Weston, and Ted Deutch, D-West Boca, at Nova Southeastern University’s oceanographic campus in Dania Beach.

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“Keep your ‘drill, baby, drill’ policies away from our vital Florida coasts,” Wasserman Schultz said. Possibly the only thing that could prevent drilling from taking place along the Atlantic Coast in southeast Florida is Trump’s love of his oceanside Mar-a-Lago Club, Deutch said. The region could be spared drilling rigs “maybe selfishly because he doesn’t want to have his views from Mar-a-Lago obscured.”

More:
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/fl-reg-florida-oil-spill-politics-20170428-story.html

[WinkyDink]

1. Trump said he would do this. Oh, and DWS. As with CA's lemons: Revenge.

[beachbum bob]

2. floridians deserves what they going to get....

and when their beaches are gone and they wonder where the tourist ween we can point out supporting batshit crazy conservatives and their greed has a price