Florida House spent $200k on "rush job" pro drilling report

[kpete]

Source: WUSF


WUSF reports: Shortly before the Deepwater Horizon exploded in the Gulf, the Florida House spent $200,000 for a study of oil drilling off Florida's coast which said any spills would be rare, small and easily contained.

Now, a leading environmental lawyer and Congresswoman Castor are calling the original study misleading and a waste of taxpayer money – especially since another well-respected think-tank had just issued its own report about drilling off Florida’s coast.

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The report by the Willis Group cost $200,000 because it was a “rush job,” according to Jill Chamberlin, spokeswoman for Florida House Speaker Larry Cretul.

She says Cretul commissioned the report at the request of Rep. Dean Cannon, who’s in line to become the next House Speaker. Cannon has led the effort to allow oil drilling in Florida’s territorial waters, which reach about 10 miles offshore in the Gulf.


Read more: http://www.wusf.usf.edu/news/2010/05/31/florida_house_spent_200000_on_rush-job_oil_drilling_study

[tosh]

1. "rush job"....

the polite term for it.

[activa8tr]

2. The Florida House spends lots of money on all sorts of reports, I remember

the one about gays being dangerous as adopted parents/foster parents.

I guess the customer is always right.

[nashville_brook]

3. zing...!

[Dappleganger]

4. Can FL taxpayers sue the House for wasting our money??

Because they have certainly made this practice a freaking habit of theirs!!!

[sinkingfeeling]

5. What's the conversion rate in Florida? Would that $200K be 2 or 3 teachers?

[Lochloosa]

6. 3

[EJSTES2005]

7. Sadly it would probably more like 4 or 5

Salary range: $32,879 - $59,138

Average teacher salary: $45,296

Average beginning teacher salary: $30,700

Median household income: $42,433

Median house price: $189,500

Per-Pupil Spending: $6,056

Cents spent on benefits for every dollar paid as salary: 25.2¢

[YDogg]

8. correct

[Scuba]

9. Makes it pretty clear who they are representing.