{"id":98,"date":"2010-01-19T23:19:43","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T23:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/?p=98"},"modified":"2010-01-19T23:19:43","modified_gmt":"2010-01-19T23:19:43","slug":"u-s-senate-florida-senator-bill-nelson-replies-to-report-on-oil-drilling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/2010\/01\/19\/u-s-senate-florida-senator-bill-nelson-replies-to-report-on-oil-drilling\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Senate:  Florida Senator Bill Nelson replies to Report on Oil Drilling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<br \/>\nTues., Jan. 19, 2010<br \/>\nContact:\u00a0 Dan McLaughlin; 202-224-1679 \/ 202-309-1985<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.billnelson.senate.gov\">www.billnelson.senate.gov<\/a><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nFollowing is Sen. Bill Nelson&#8217;s response to a report today on oil drilling by Securing America&#8217;s Future Energy:<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nIt should come as no surprise that a group that touts drilling off Florida should produce a study saying drilling there is okay.\u00a0 Its report must be considered against a backdrop: it was produced by a group that helped craft and promote legislation that would allow oil drilling 45 miles off Florida&#8217;s coast.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nAnd it&#8217;s probably no coincidence that the sponsor of the legislation today also touted the study in question while renewing a call for passage of his bill.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nAs for the report citing claims by former or retired military that armed forces training off Florida could co-exist with drilling, the Pentagon for years has said otherwise.\u00a0 It remains the Defense Department&#8217;s policy that military exercises and training in the eastern Gulf are incompatible with oil drilling operations.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe bottom line remains the same: oil drilling and military training don&#8217;t mix; and, there isn&#8217;t enough oil off Florida&#8217;s coast to make a difference in our country&#8217;s energy independence; nor is there enough to risk the environment and tourism-driven economy of the nation&#8217;s fourth largest state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Tues., Jan. 19, 2010 Contact:\u00a0 Dan McLaughlin; 202-224-1679 \/ 202-309-1985 www.billnelson.senate.gov \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Following is Sen. Bill Nelson&#8217;s response to a report today on oil drilling by Securing America&#8217;s Future Energy: \u00a0 It should come as no surprise that a group that touts drilling off Florida should produce a study saying drilling there &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/2010\/01\/19\/u-s-senate-florida-senator-bill-nelson-replies-to-report-on-oil-drilling\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">U.S. Senate:  Florida Senator Bill Nelson replies to Report on Oil Drilling<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions\/99"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}