http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/opinion/os-ed-front-center-110711-20111104,0,3741117.story

Orlando Sentinel
November 7, 2011

Just one more good reason to end the Cuban embargo.……DV

Florida’s former governor and senator, who co-chaired the National Commission on the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, says a planned oil rig off the north coast of Cuba poses a risk to Florida. Particularly because the two nations don’t have an agreement on how they’d cooperatively trouble-shoot an oil spill. Graham tells editorial writer Victor Schaffner that non-governmental delegations from the U.S. are meeting in Cuba, but, Graham says, “there’s going to have to be some involvement by the U.S. government” to bring about an agreement. “Time is not your ally” after a spill, Graham says. An accident off Cuba could threaten the Keys and the entire east coast of Florida. And, he says, the Chinese-built, semisubmersible rig could be drilling for oil as soon as January.

Special thanks to Richard Charter