Resolution 178-1988
Commissioner John Stormont
RESOLUTION NO. 178-1988
A RESOLUTION EXPRESSING THE MONROE COUNTY
COMMISSION'S OPPOSITION TO ANY OFFSHORE
DRILLING IN AND ABOUT THE FLORIDA KEYS.
WHEREAS, it has been reported that the Department of Interi-
or is considering the granting of offshore drilling rights along
the coast of Florida; and
WHEREAS, lease sale 116 located twenty-five (25) miles North
of Key West, Florida, is scheduled for development this year; and
WHEREAS, the County Commission of Monroe County is opposed
to any proposed drilling in that the lease sale area is the
specific breeding ground for spiny lobster, pink shrimp,
stonecrabs and reef fish and because the area is so close to the
Everglades and the delicate coral reefs in the Florida Keys; and
WHEREAS,
the County Commission hereby expresses
its
opposition in this resolution, now, therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MAYOR AND COUNTY COMMISSION OF MONROE
COUNTY, FLORIDA:
Section 1.
That any and all offshore drilling on the
coasts of Florida, particularly the Florida Keys, is hereby
unalterably opposed.
Section 2.
That
the opposition expressed by
this
resolution be spread on the records of the State and Federal
officials considering this lease sale to grant such drilling
rights and that copies of this resolution be sent to the Florida
delegation in the United States Congress, Senators Lawton Chiles
and Bob Graham, U.S. Representative Dante Fasce11, Representative
Ron Saunders and Senator Larry Plummer in Tallahassee, and the
Governor of the State of Florida, Bob Martinez and all members of
the Florida Cabinet and the Directors of the Department of
Community Affairs, the Department of Environmental Regulation,
and the Department of Natural Resources.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Board of County Commissioners of
Monroe County, Florida, at a regular meeting of said Board held
on the 19th day of April, A.D., 1988.
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
OF MONROE COUNTY, FLORIDA.
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