Forum to focus on drilling off Florida's Gulf Coast | pnj.com | Pensacola News Journal

Forum to focus on drilling off Florida's Gulf Coast | pnj.com | Pensacola News Journal: "TALLAHASSEE — With gas prices and Florida's need for new revenue wearing down public resistance to Gulf Coast oil drilling, a statewide public forum on the controversy is set for late this month.

Florida State University and Gannett Florida are organizing the two-hour event on Oct. 28. A panel of experts on both sides will take questions from a studio audience at FSU, television viewers and residents watching on Web sites of Gannett newspapers and TV stations across Florida.

'We want to bring together in a single place the best thinking by proponents and opponents of lifting the ban on drilling off our shores, and put them in front of the people of Florida,' said Bob Gabordi, executive editor of the Tallahassee Democrat. He said the forum will help assure 'that the best ideas, not the best politics, win the day.'"