Oil on the Edge: Offshore Development, Conflict, Gridlock

Robert Gramling

ISBN 10: 0791426947 / ISBN 13: 9780791426944

Published by State University of New York Press, 1995

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208 pages. 9.25x5.50x0.50 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Oil on the Edge: Offshore Development, Conflict, Gridlock
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0791426947
• ISBN 13: 9780791426944
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.3 kilograms

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Synopsis

The federal offshore oil leasing program has generated more than billion for the federal government, and the Outer Continental Shelf represents the greatest potential for oil and gas reserves remaining in the United States. But most U.S. coastal states oppose offshore development, and the battle resulting from these conflicting forces has raged through the last five presidential administrations and concurrent sessions of Congress. This book tells the history of the debate, puts it in perspective, and explores the prospects for future development. It traces the factors that led to the ascendancy of oil as an energy source, the emergence of the technology that made undersea extraction possible, the political forces that led to the dramatic offshore boom in the Gulf of Mexico, and the national policies that eventually produced the closing of virtually all offshore federal lands to the agency created within the Department of Interior to exploit them.

About the Author

Robert Gramling is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Socioeconomic Impacts at the University of Southwestern Louisiana. He is the co-author (with William R. Freudenberg) of Oil in Troubled Waters: Perceptions, Politics, and the Battle Over Offshore Drilling, also published by SUNY Press.