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Environmentalists Say Fracking Fight Isn’t Over

March 16th, 2016 by flanews

Environmentalists fought tooth and nail this year against the controversial procedure known as Fracking, and as Matt Galka tells us, they won, for now.

Anti-fracking groups became a familiar site at Florida’s Capitol for the past two months.  Armed with what they said was contaminated water from other states – the advocates against the controversial practice railed against proposals to regulate it statewide.

A proposal studying fracking and allowing the state to regulate it ultimately failed.  Sponsor Garrett Richter says Florida is no better off today because of it.

“Oil companies can come into Florida as they could last year and the year before and the year before when the Hughes company came to Collier county and they can frack. Alls my bill would have done is put a regulatory framework in place,” said Sen. Richter (R-Naples).

But environmental lawyer David Guest says the bill would have ignored around 60 local resolutions passed around the state banning Fracking.

“What that bill did is trump the power of local governments to protect the health of their residents by making it so that fracking could be authorized by the state and nobody could say anything about it,” he said.

Environmentalists declared victory for 2016, but they say the fight isn’t over.

“I think they’ll try and bring it back next year and I think the DEP will look at rules,” said Guest.

Conventional fracking last happened in the state in 2003…but acid fracking happened in Collier County in 2013.  the state’s Department of Environmental Protection ordered a cease and desist out of groundwater contamination fears.

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