The spill enters the loop current. Courtesy: NASA
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"No Baby, No" Agriculture Commissioner Candidate Scott Maddox on nearshore oil drilling: “I can think of no better way to destroy our economy and hurt average Floridians than to mortgage our future on the risky proposition of putting oil rigs a few miles off our coast. One spill would set coastal communities back several generations; [...] As much as the Big Oil lobbyists that are circling above Tallahassee would like you to believe, nearshore oil drilling is far from a done deal in the Senate. As reported in the Sunday St. Petersburg Times, many Republican Senators still believe that the public is not ready for the risk an oil deal so [...] In Florida, many photovoltaic energy companies are now backing nearshore drilling as a means to receive conciliatory funds from legislators. From Wikipedia: Stockholm syndrome is a psychological response sometimes seen in abducted hostages, in which the hostage shows signs of loyalty to the hostage-taker, regardless of the danger or risk in which they have been placed. Is this what [...] The St. Petersburg Times is reporting that Florida Senate President Jeff Atwater won’t let his chamber flub an oil drilling bill this year. In what the Times calls a “blatant conflict of interest,” Atwater named Senator Alex Diaz de la Portilla as chairman of the Committee on Communications, Energy, and Public Utilities. The wife of [...] |
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