Photo: Jeff Burlew, via Tallahassee Democrat.
Thanks to Merrillee Malwitz-Jipson of Our Santa Fe River (pictured in blue shirts on left) and many others, a pro-fracking anti-open-records bill failed
in the Florida legislature yesterday.
WWALS helped persuade both its Florida counties, Madison and Hamilton,
to pass anti-fracking resolutions,
like so many other Florida counties did
as OSFR tirelessly travelled the state.
Bills in the Florida House and Senate
to ban fracking outright did not pass.
But neither did the fracking industry’s bill that would have exempt it from
disclosure of its toxic chemicals, and would have prohibited local governments
from banning fracking.
No doubt the fossil fuel industry will be back next year with a Florida
pro-fracking bill, but so will the opponents, with bills to ban fracking.
And in another year, maybe Florida will catch on that when
the Georgia legislature unanimously approved
a solar financing bill, it’s time for the Sunshine State to
put fracking behind it
and get on with clean, safe, renewable sun, wind, and water power.
Orlando Sentinel, 29 April 2015,
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