2010 Senate Joint Resolution Z

Place slant drilling ban in constitution

Introduced in the Senate

June 29, 2010

Introduced by Sen. Roger Kahn (R-32)

To place before voters in the next general election a Constitutional amendment to ban “slant drilling” for oil or gas in the Great Lakes. Slant drilling, in which a well is drilled from an inland location and then “slanted” to tap into oil located 3,000 to 4,000 feet below the lake, is already banned by a <a href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/2001-HB-5118">2001 statute</a>.

Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environmental Affairs