A new analysis of military training conducted off Virginia finds that nearly all of the Outer Continental Shelf in that area is incompatible with offshore drilling now being pushed by members of Congress and the Trump administration.
The D.C.-based advocacy group Oceana said Wednesday that its review of U.S. Defense Department planning assessmentsfound that 94 percent of the waters off Virginia are vital to an array of military operations that would conflict with offshore oil and gas development.
“There’s little room to drill off Virginia’s coast,” Oceana’s campaign director, Diane Hoskins, said in a phone call Wednesday. “94 percent (of the area) has longstanding DOD operations critical to national security and military readiness. There’s too much at stake.”
