[Baixar] Epub Oil on the Edge: Offshore Development, Conflict,
Gridlock
By Robert Gramling
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.
