Hundreds rally in Kill Devil Hills to oppose offshore drilling

[octoberlib]

According to sign-up sheets at a public meeting held by federal officials in the neighboring Ramada Inn, more than 600 people showed up.

The Comfort Inn gathering was organized to rally opposition.

Open supporters of offshore drilling were hard to find, and two visits to a first-floor meeting room at the Ramada hosted by the pro-drilling American Energy Works at the Ramada turned up no more than two or three people milling about.

The federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), charged with overseeing over 1.7 billion acres of offshore submerged lands, was hosting one of two dozen public meetings andcomment sessions along the East Coast to explain the process set in motion by President Obama’s decision in January to offer five-year leases to explore the mid-Atlantic continental shelf for possible oil and gas reserves.


http://outerbanksvoice.com/2015/03/16/hundreds-gather-in-kdh-for-sessions-on-offshore-drilling/

[NCarolinawoman]

1. Good to see the large turn-out.

And the chamber of commerce is against it as well!

Most people, both native North Carolinians and newer arrivals love the oceans of North Carolina. Rich history and beautiful beaches. It gets in your blood.

Obama should be ashamed, and McGrory should go back to his native Ohio. Neither one "get it".