5.2.11 Footnotes 



^.S. Geological Survey. No date. Geological Estimates of 

 Undiscovered Recoverable Oil and Gas Resources in the United States . 

 USGS Circular 725. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, 

 D.C. pp. 26-32. 



There is disagreement between USGS and State of Alaska estimates 

 concerning the magnitude of oil underlying the Alaskan OCS. State 

 experts estimate that Alaskan OCS oil reserves total about 50 billion 

 barrels of recoverable oil (from untitled manuscript, John Williams, 

 pp. 2). 



2 Coastal Zone Management. November 3, 1976. Vol. 7, No. 44. 

 Nautilas Press Inc., Washington, D.C. pp. 2. 



3 Edmondson, C. A. October 1975. Offshore Oil: Activity 

 Stepping Up Though Conflicts Remain . Alaska Industry, Anchorage, AK. 

 pp. 48-49. 



^No author. September 1975. The State in the Far North Has 

 Produced Oil Since 1895 . Offshore. Vol. 35, No. 10. pp. 96-97. 



One of these lease sales, the 1973 Kachemak Bay sale (near 

 the mouth of Cook Inlet) sparked a bitter conflict between fish- 

 ing and oil interests that may portend similar difficulties with 

 future OCS development, Fishing and conservation groups fought 

 to void a $25 million lease sale in Kachemak Bay, an area widely 

 acknowledged to be one of the most biologically productive bodies 

 of water in the world. Opponents argued that the state, under 

 the Egan administration, ignored scientific evidence about the 

 bay's ecological importance while also preventing citizen input 

 prior to the lease sale. This conflict reached a fever pitch 

 in the summer of 1976 after the destruction of some local fish- 

 ing gear by oil exploration activities and after a small but 

 dramatic 30,000-gallon spill from a drilling rig mired in the 

 Bay. The spill created a slick more than 2 miles long which 

 proved to be very difficult to clean up. Faced with a dangerous 

 political and environmental situation, the Alaska state legis- 

 lature enacted a law authorizing the governor to buy back the 

 Kachemak Bay acreage either through negotiation with oil officials 

 or by condemnation after a period of one year. 



5 U.S. Department of Interior, Bureau of Land Management. 

 July 1976. Draft Environmental Impact Statement, Lower Cook 

 Inlet . Bureau of Land Management, Washington, D.C. pp. 23-28. 



6 0p. cit. The State in the Far North Has Produced Oil 

 Since 1895 . pp. 97. 



U.S. House of Representatives Hearings. August 5-7, 1975. 

 Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act Amendments of 1975 . Part 2, 

 H.R.6218. U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, D.C. 



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