The Delaware Audubon Society will not be showing up for the public workshops this Wednesday and Thursday on legislation that opens up certain coastal areas to heavy industry.
The boycott by the environmental group comes after a bitter fight over revisions to the 1971 Coastal Zone Act that is aimed at keeping heavy industry at bay.
The Wilmington News Journal reports that a group of environmental and civic groups refused invitations to confidential interviews because the comments were being taken behind closed doors.
The paper also notes that the interviews did not include comments from people who live near the 14 industrial sites that are effected by the new law.
Permits can now be issued but the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control is working to get public input for a committee to draw up regulations by October of 2019.
