BACKGROUNDER: OCS Access and Development
Western Business Roundtable
Currently, the federal government prevents America from accessing some of its most promising homegrown energy resources. The result: an unnecessary continuation of our nation's dependence on foreign countries for our energy needs.
Read the Roundtable's backgrounder on the enormous and largely untapped domestic energy resource that can be found on publicly owned lands in the oceans off the U.S. – known as the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS), and learn why it is more important than ever that federal laws and regulations are changed to allow responsible access.
Click here to view the OCS backgrounder.
