Offshore drilling foes, denied microphone, hold rallies
Story Date: 2/15/2018

 

Source: Wayne Parry, WRAL, 2/14/18

With giant inflatable whales, signs that read "Drilling Is Killing" and chants of "Where's our meeting?" opponents of President Donald Trump's plan to open most of the nation's coastline to oil and natural gas drilling have staged boisterous rallies before public meetings held by the federal government on the topic. That's because the public cannot speak to the assembled attendees at the meetings. The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management is meeting one on one...

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