Holding hands for a clean energy future
Story Location:
Wilmington Avenue
Rehoboth, DE 19971
United States
More than 100 people participated in the annual Hands Across the Sand event May 19 in Rehoboth.
The local event was part of a worldwide movement started in the wake of the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Citizens around the globe came together to join hands in defense of the world’s oceans and to show solidarity for a clean energy future. The gathering in Rehoboth showed unified opposition to the Trump administration’s newest draft of the Outer Continental Shelf Leasing Program, which opens more than 90 percent of the United States’ offshore regions to oil and gas development in the Atlantic, including areas off Delaware’s coast.
The strong showing included random people on the beach and people from Epworth United Methodist Church, Surfrider Foundation Delaware Chapter, Oceana, MERR Institute, Delaware Interfaith Power and Light, Delaware Sierra Club and Progressive Democrats of Sussex County. For more information on Hands Across the Sand, go to handsacrossthesand.com.
Chris Flood has been working for the Cape Gazette since early 2014. He currently covers Rehoboth Beach and Henlopen Acres, but has also covered Dewey Beach and the state government. He covers environmental stories, business stories, random stories on subjects he finds interesting and has a column called ‘Choppin’ Wood’ that runs every other week. Additionally, Chris moonlights as the company’s circulation manager, which primarily means fixing boxes during daylight hours that are jammed with coins, but sometimes means delivering papers in the middle of the night. He’s a graduate of the University of Maine and the Landing School of Boat Building & Design.
