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Will Florida Ban Fracking?
Reason magazine
|June 2017
NIMBYism in the Sunshine State
FLORIDA PRODUCES VERY little oil and natural gas. According to the state’s Department of Environmental Protection, it has just 64 wells in operation, which gave the world a total of 2 million barrels of oil and 20 billion cubic feet of natural gas in all of 2016. None of those were drilled using fracking techniques.
So why did the Florida Senate consider a ban in March? It turns out that familiarity breeds acceptance, according to a January 2017 working paper by the Oregon State University sociologist Hilary Boudet and her colleagues. In the Sunshine State, the inverse seems to be true. The authors wanted to find out how
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