Governor John Carney has sent a letter to the Trump Administration expressing his opposition to offshore shore drilling along the Delaware coast or anywhere else in the Atlantic Ocean.
The letter was sent to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke in which he said there were over 60-thousand jobs involved in the tourist or fishing industries that could be effected.
WBOC reports that the Delaware Democrat said that a 2012 analysis found that more than 10 percent of the state’s total employment, taxes and production value is bound up with the coastal areas.
President Trump signed an executive order in April to review the restrictions that the Obama administration placed on drilling for oil and gas along the coastline.
