These fracking bills that the oil companies and our Department of Environmental Protection want passed in Florida will be voted on in committees on Tuesday in Tallahassee. Please try to go to speak against them to the legislators, but if you cannot go, please call each one and them how bad fracking will be for Florida.
Fracking is coming to Florida and now is the time to stop it before it gets entrenched. Those who do not oppose it are helping the petroleum industry by their silence. If you care for our aquifer just think a little and inform yourself of the basics, and remember that the oil companies’ lobbyists are at the meetings, along with their supporters such as the DEP, Associated Industries of Florida, and many legislators. OSFR has seen them at every meeting we have attended. We need your help and if you love the rivers of Florida, the Suwannee, Ichetucknee, Santa Fe, Withlacoochee, get activated and make some phone calls, take a trip to Tallahassee and let them know you do not want them to destroy our water resources.
The DEP writes more and more permits for drilling every year. Their business is to issue permits, and the fact that they are now defending the fracking bills which will enable and encourage fracking, and the fact that the fracking lobbyists are defending these bills in the Legislature are a strong indicator that interest is mounting and the issue is drawing nigh.
Here is the list of people to call — tell them what you want–their job is to listen to you and protect our waters.
Table 1 Appropriations Subcommittee on General Government
SB 1468 Fracking Permitting
| Senator | Phone number / Zip Code | Counties they represent | Springs |
| Chair Alan Hays (R) hays.alan.web@flsenate.gov |
487-5011 Umatilla 32784 The Villages 32159 Clermont 34711 |
Lake, Marion, Orange, Sumter | Alexander, Rainbow, Silver, Rock, Gum, Wekiwa |
| Vice Chair Oscar Braynon (D) braynon.oscar.web@flsenate.gov |
487-5036 Miami Gardens 33169 |
Broward, Miami-Dade | None (Everglades) |
| Thad Altman (R) altman.thad.web@flsenate.gov |
487-5016 Cape Canaveral 32920 Sebastian 32958 |
Brevard, Indian River | None (Indian River) |
| Charles Dean (R) dean.charles.web@flsenate.gov |
487-5005 Inverness 34450 Ocala 34471 |
Baker, Citrus, Columbia, Dixie, Gilchrist, Lafayette, Levy, Suwannee, Union, Marion | Homosassa, Santa Fe, (Steinhatchee River Rise) Devils Eye, Hart, Ginnie, Otter, Rock Bluff, Convict, Fanning, Manatee, Wekiva, Ichetucknee, Peacock, Worthington, |
| Tom Lee (R) lee.tom.web@flsenate.gov |
487-5024 Brandon 33511 |
Hillsborough | Eureka, Lithia, Sulphur |
| Gwen Margolis (D) margolis.gwen.web@flsenate.gov |
487-5035 Miami 33137 |
Miami-Dade | None (Everglades) |
| Wilton Simpson (R) simpson.wilton.web@flsenate.gov |
487-5018 New Port Richey 34656 Brooksville 34605 |
Hernando, Pasco, Sumter | Weeki Wachee, Crystal, |
Table 2 Governmental Oversight and Accountability Committee
SB 1582 Public Records / Trade Secrets (MOST CRITICAL TO Kill)
| Senator / email | Phone number all (850) areacode/ Zip Code | Counties |
| Chair Jeremy Ring (D) Ring.Jeremy.web@flsenate.gov |
(850) 487-5029 Margate 33063 |
Broward |
| Vice Chair Alan Hays Hays.alan.web@flsenate.gov |
(850) 487-5011 Umatilla 32784 The Villages 32159 Clermont 34711 |
Lake, Marion, Orange & Sumter |
| Dwight Bullard Bullard.dwight.web@flsenate.gov |
(850) 487-5039 Cutler Bay 33189 |
Hendry, Monroe, Collier & Miami-Dade |
| Jack Latvala latvala.jack.web@flsenate.gov |
(850) 487-5029 Margate 33063 |
Pinellas |
| John Legg legg.john.web@flsenate.gov |
(850) 487-5017 Lutz 33548 |
Hillsborough & Pasco |
Done. Emailed them all.