“Zombie Fracking Bill” Likely to Die
March 1st, 2016 by Mike Vasilinda
Fracking opponent s can breathe a sigh of relief tonight. Legislation prohibiting local governments from banning fracking died on a 10 to 9 vote last week in a state Senate committee, but was kept alive on a procedural move. Today, the sponsor acknowledged he couldn’t change votes in his favor, likely killing the bill for 2016. Opponent Merrillee Malwitz-Jipson called it the zombie bill because it kept coming back to life.
“I think oil and extortion in the state of Florida isn’t viable. I think we rely so much on our water for our whole economy, and if it gets tainted or polluted, if it gets impacted from this type of process, we will all feel the ramifications. Certainly, after the BP oil spill, we saw what that felt like. We don;t want to see anything that could have those types of dire consequences our water or in our Floridian aquifer” says the Canoeing business owner.
Lawmakers voted no expressed doubt about the unknowns of fracking in a state like Florida with shallow ground water sources.
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