Sen. Bill Nelson Wants Stop to New Offshore Drilling As Oil Spill Worsens

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Sen. Bill Nelson Wants Stop to New Offshore Drilling As Oil Spill Worsens
Posted:
04/29/10


As a massive oil slick made its way toward the Gulf Coast Thursday, Florida's senior senator called on President Obama to put a emergency moratorium on all new offshore oil drilling.

Sen. Bill Nelson, a Democrat, also introduced a bill to stop the Obama administration from moving forward with a plan to expand offshore oil drilling to the area of the Outer Continental Shelf.

In a letter to the president, Nelson specifically asked for an immediate halt to operations on test wells and exploratory activities in all coastal waters until the cause of the Deep Water test well spill is known. That well has been spewing about 5,000 barrels of oil a day into the Gulf waters since an explosion last week. It is expected to continue for weeks until engineers can figure out how to stop the flow of oil thousands of feet below the surface of the ocean.

"Drilling too close to the coast poses too great a risk to the economy and the environment of Florida and other coastal states," Nelson warned Obama.

Nelson also told the president he has asked the Department of the Interior's inspector general to investigate a 2003 decision not to require test wells to have emergency systems to cut off oil flow in the event of a disaster.

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http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/04/29/sen-bill-nelson-wants-stop-to-new-offshore-drilling-as-oil-spil/

[Dappleganger]

1. KICKED for a FL Dem finally acting like a progressive!!

If you live here in FL please remember to contact his office to THANK him whenever he acts like a Democrat.

Positive reinforcement goes a long way. ;)

[LakeSamish706]

2. never mind.