Defend Louisiana campaign launched in Rehoboth Beach
About a mile south of President Joe Biden’s beach house backyard, an advocacy group from Louisiana against liquified gas export terminals launched a new campaign June 28 at the Rehoboth Beach Bandstand.
The campaign is called Defend Louisiana, an initiative of Louisiana Bucket Brigade, an advocacy group that, according to its website, “uses grassroots action to hold the petrochemical industry and government accountable for the true costs of pollution.” Representatives of the group held their campaign launch in Rehoboth because of its connection to Biden – he has a house in the North Shores community to the north – and other Washington, D.C. connections.
The campaign’s primary question asks beachgoers, “if elected officials in Washington, D.C., would ever allow Rehoboth Beach to be destroyed the same way the Gulf Coast of Louisiana is being devastated by liquified gas export terminals.” The group would like to see Biden stop the permitting of gas export terminals.
For more information on Louisiana Bucket Brigade, go to labucketbrigade.org. For more information on the Defend Louisiana campaign, go to defendswla.org/rehoboth.
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.
