Friday, June 12, 2009

Amendment bad deal for Gulf coast

Here we go again.

"SENATE PANEL OKS DRILLING IN EASTERN GULF"

Wednesday’s Bradenton Herald front page headline made you shake your head.

Will this never end?

The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee did Big Oil’s bidding last week, voting to allow drilling 10 miles from the Panhandle beaches and 45 from our own.

Big Oil is relentless.

The 2006 Congressional ban on new drilling within 125 miles of us?

Pffft.

The Florida senate’s deep six of last April’s 11th-hour bill for near-shore drilling?

Out of the way.



Read more in Mannix About Manatee in Sunday's Herald and Bradenton.com

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