Miller Flops On Oil
The Local Puppy Trainer noticed that the Senate is trying to put oil rigs off our coast: Nelson, Miller denounce oil-drilling amendment
Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson is leading the fight against the amendment, which he claims would allow drilling within 10 miles of the coast and inside the area known as the Destin Dome.
It also would make the Air Force a “third priority” party in discussion of where oil platforms could be built in the eastern Gulf of Mexico, said Nelson spokeswoman Susie Perez-Quinn.
“The bottom line is they (military officials) would be notified after the fact,” Perez-Quinn said. “They’d find out after the (drilling) management areas had been opened up and the Department of the Interior had given their approval.”
The military long has opposed drilling anywhere east of an imaginary boundary known as the military mission line, which runs from approximately Hurlburt Field south into the gulf.
This time, because the Dems are in charge, local Congresscritter Jefferson B. Miller (R-Chumuckla), has decided it’s a bad idea. Of course, when the Repugs were in charge in 2006, he voted to lift the ban.
