{"id":14035,"date":"2015-11-01T09:08:32","date_gmt":"2015-11-01T14:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=14035"},"modified":"2015-11-01T09:08:32","modified_gmt":"2015-11-01T14:08:32","slug":"battle-to-keep-florida-frack-free-heats-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=14035","title":{"rendered":"Battle to Keep Florida Frack-Free Heats Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

Battle to Keep Florida Frack-Free Heats Up<\/a><\/h3>\n

The battle to keep Florida frack-free is intensifying ahead of the 2016 state legislative\u00a0session.<\/p>\n

Fracking became an issue last year after Florida\u2019s Department of Environmental Protection (DEP<\/span>)\u00a0revealed\u00a0that the\u00a0Dan A. Hughes Co. had fracked the Collier-Hogan well in Naples<\/a>, despite regulators telling it not to until the agency had a chance to thoroughly review the company\u2019s\u00a0plans.<\/p>\n

Shortly after the news broke, the move to ban fracking in Florida\u00a0began.<\/p>\n

Democratic State Senators Dwight Bullard and Darren Soto filed Senate Bill 166 that called for a statewide ban on fracking. Their bill failed, but was\u00a0reintroduced this year<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In July,\u00a0Bonita Springs, a city near Naples, passed a ban<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0all types of well-stimulation techniques, including fracking.\u00a0Nearby\u00a0Estero is considering a ban<\/a>\u00a0as\u00a0well.<\/p>\n

In a move that would void existing bans, companion legislation\u00a0sponsored by Republican State Senator Garrett Richter\u00a0(SB<\/span>318<\/a>) and Republican State Representative Ray Rodrigues (HB<\/span>\u00a0191) calls for statewide regulations for fracking. The bills, if passed, would preempt all local ordinances governing the oil and gas\u00a0industry.<\/p>\n

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\nCollier County legislative delegation on October 15 in Naples. \u00a92015 Julie Dermansky\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

On October 15, the public had an opportunity to address a Collier County legislative delegation on the bills meant to govern the fracking industry.\u00a0Senators Bullard and Richter were part of the delegation present at the\u00a0Naples meeting<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Anti-fracking activists stated that nothing short of a fracking ban would protect their families from the harm\u00a0the industry can cause, pointing to other states where documented incidents of negative impacts caused by fracking are stacking\u00a0up.<\/p>\n

Objections were made to the preemption of local ordinances governing oil and gas that would void Bonita\u2019s ban and prevent other municipalities from initiating their own\u00a0ban.<\/p>\n

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Battle to Keep Florida Frack-Free Heats Up The battle to keep Florida frack-free is intensifying ahead of the 2016 state legislative\u00a0session. Fracking became an issue last year after Florida\u2019s Department of Environmental Protection (DEP)\u00a0revealed\u00a0that the\u00a0Dan A. Hughes Co. had fracked the Collier-Hogan well in Naples, despite regulators telling it not to until the agency had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[10401,10400,10404,4277,5317,10403,940,331,332,412,10402,1729],"class_list":["post-14035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","tag-collier-hogan-well","tag-dan-a-hughes-company","tag-darren-soto","tag-department-of-environmental-protection","tag-desmog-blog","tag-dwight-bullard","tag-florida","tag-fracking","tag-fracking-ban","tag-hydraulic-fracturing","tag-naples","tag-oil-and-gas-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14036,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14035\/revisions\/14036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}