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Comment by Jeff Greene on October 13, 2009 at 4:09pm

Dear Fellow Pickens Plan members:

I have been impressed with your level of response as well as your passion relating to the recent message about environmental groups and their opposition to oil and gas exploration. In fairness to all sides; I believe it is important to add some further perspective on this issue. After checking with House and Senate Sponsors and the focus of future legislation as well as advocacy groups on this issue, I have been told the following considerations are being made right now:

1. Drilling will be banned in the traditional 3 mile state waters around Florida. The New “open area” will be the 3-9 nautical mile area that is traditionally federal waters but Florida and Texas own due to historical reasons.
2. The proposal does NOT allow drilling. It merely lifts the ban and requires the Governor and Cabinet to receive proposals for leases and then permits. There is no requirement to drill and if the Trustees determine drilling is not economically viable or environmentally safe, they would reject the proposals. (and keep the $5M application fee).
3. No permanently equipment visible from shore will be allowed. Temporary rigs may be used between 3 and 9 miles, but cannot be in place for more than 6 months.
4. Many coastal areas of military and environmental concern would be off limits.
5. The state of Florida will receive MINIMALLY 20.5% of all revenue received from the sale of oil and gas – The state is effectively a 20.5% revenue share partner in the agreement – and potentially more depending upon the bids of the participants.
6. Funding received from the proposal will be spent on the following areas: Future and alternative fuel developments (Including specifically infrastructure and end-user grants for CNG Vehicles), environmental restoration and enhancement projects, local governments, education, economic development and promotion for arts and tourism.
7. In order to ensure the best companies and best trained employees are involved; a $5M non refundable application fee would be required as well as a $500 Million bond prior to any drilling activity by each entity engaged in the process. An apprentice type training program will also be required as well as the best materials and pipes to ensure accident free drilling activity. Florida will have the world’s highest standards for drilling if it is allowed here.
8. I have also been told that revenue could become available immediately from application fees, advanced royalty fees and advanced payments. AND that oil and gas revenue would flow in 12-18 months after a permit is issued. So the funding is not a – “years out” issue – it is short term available.

Many of you may wish to oppose this plan, but let me respectfully remind you that the Pickens Plan is about many things, but it is Certainly about using American made fuels (some renewable, some fossil) to power our cars and homes. CNG is a huge part of our plan and massive amounts of natural gas lie in the Gulf’s eastern planning region and Florida waters. To suggest we don’t need to enhance our supply of American fuels seems inconsistent with our mission and that is the basis of support for this proposal. Secondly, the fact that it can be done – and will ONLY Be done with massive environmental protections, huge financial protection measures and with the best trained labor available makes it more appealing. And lastly, yes, the money matters too. Florida is in Deep, Deep financial peril. After cuts of nearly $7B in the past two years, our leaders tell us we will face another $7B in cuts over the next two years. Tax increases in a recession make no sense, so a wealth event like oil and gas exploration may be our only way out as a state. AND, that the legislative leaders want to expand and fund CNG infrastructure as well as deployment of vehicle filling equipment only adds to the allure of this proposal for Pickens Plan supporters.

Please visit www.EnergyFLA.com to join the move in Florida to enhance our supply of American fuels.

I hope you will join me in supporting this effort – and ensuring that the legislature knows the Pickens Plan is behind it – and fully expects CNG to benefit in the years ahead to help eliminate the balance of trade deficit americ now has with its energy needs.

Comment by Chris Jones on August 12, 2009 at 6:01am

FYI Group,

We are still looking for an Internet Specialist for District 22, a Political Specialist as well as a Media Specialist for the District. For specifics into these Specialist positions please feel free to contact me at anytime. Some work has been put into these positions by myself but there is much to be gained in these areas.

Thank you for your support and as usual.....

Carry On!!! carry on...

Chris

Comment by Ted Wallace on August 11, 2009 at 4:13pm

Nice set up Chris!
Blog on, or
Carry on!!!

Comment by Chris Jones on August 11, 2009 at 1:57pm

Good News for District 22!

Everyone please give a quick attaboy to Lenore Montalbano and Gary Morse.

Gary is looking into becoming the Contact of the Environmental Movements Specialist for District 22 of the PIckens Plan and Lenore Montalbano is taking on the position of Blogger Specialist for District 22!!

Congrats guys and keep up the good work.

Carry On!!!!! carry on....

Chris

Comment by Chris Jones on August 5, 2009 at 4:34pm

Hey Team,

You should have recieved by now a personalized message from me to either become my friend or an email with a message along the lines of this:

District 22 is looking to add a Specialist to Represent the District...

What I actually see is at least 5 Specialist Representatives such as:

Internet Specialist
Political Specialist
Environmental Specialist
Press and Media Relations Specialist
Blogger Specialist

Each of these positions will be our "official" contact to their dedicated specialty. That doesnt mean no one else can make contacts it just means that this person has taken the responsibility to represent the District to that Specialized area. This person will also have some specialized skills in these areas. Such as internet experience or maybe an engineer to the be informed on the issues in the environmental areas, or maybe political contacts, action committees or so forth.

If you did not get my personalize message I apologize but please contact me if you have an interest.

If you have a specialized skill in an area and are interested to representing the PP to that specialty PLEASE do contact me.

You can download a Pickens Plan busiiness card template off of the resources button and create your own business cards for you specialty. It looks just that much more professional if you do that.

UPDATES :

I met with Josh Maddock on Monday. He is an Assistant to Congressman Ron Klein. We discussed the Pickens Plan and he said he would forward the information to Congressman Kleins attention. No promises, but just one more poke in the shoulder. Congressman Klein was rumord to hold a meeting today in Lighthouse Poiint but he didnt show.

Thats it for now team keep up the good work and I look forward to hearing from you. As soon as we have the Specialists in place we will hold monthly meetings to get activity reports from the Specialists and get feed back from the group.

Thank you for your time.

Chris

Comment by Chris Jones on August 3, 2009 at 10:46am

Welcome to District 22 !

I see that we have 47 signed up members. I know that two of them do not actually reside in District 22, but are Pickens Plan Members at the National level.

I just wanted to update you with what is going on in our group. As you may know Jeff Greene has been signed on as the State of Florida Rep. for the Pickens Plan, if you havent had a chance to congratulate him send him a quick congradulatory e-mail.

I met this morning with Josh Maddick the District Representative for Congressman Ron Klein. He has indicated that he will be following up with Congressman Klein per our conversation and he will be doing some further investigation into the strength of our movement in District 22.

I will be making an effort to contact each and everyone of you individually to find out your levels of interest, skills and abilities from which we can all benefit each other.

I have sent an op-ed into the Miami Herald and the Sun Sentinel as soon as you see it printed please give me an e-mail. I expect the Miami Herald to print some time in the next week.

Thank you for your time and carry on...

Chris Jones

Comment by Jeff Greene on August 2, 2009 at 2:21pm

I would like to thank Chris Jones for leading this district. Please give your support to Chris and feel free to let me know what I can do to help.

Jeff Greene
Florida State Leader

Comment by Mike Pickens on June 24, 2009 at 12:46pm

I am your new regional leader, please let me hear from you !

Comment by Lenore Montalbano on April 13, 2009 at 1:49pm

I have never heard of them but here is a link http://www.fusenow.org/

Comment by Nancy M Young on April 13, 2009 at 12:53pm

I am planning to attend the Wind Energy Expo in Chicago may 4-7 and was wondering if anyone from South Florida wil be going as well. I'm still searching for a reasonably priced hotel witin walking distance to McCormick Convention Center. If you know of any, please let me know.

Also - has anyone heard of FUSE - Faiths United for Sustainable Energy? I was intrigued but never heard of the organization before. Any feedback is appreciated.

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