New York State Sea Grant Program Annual Report 1972-1973: State University Of New York And Cornell University

Details

• Personal Author:
  Squires, Donald F.
• NOAA Program & Office:
  OAR (Oceanic and Atmospheric Research) ; Sea Grant
• Sea Grant Program:
  NYSGI/NYEXT (New York Sea Grant)
• Description:
  A report on the New York State Sea Grant Program from October 1972 to November 1973. 1973 was a significant year for coastal resource management. The Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 gave the states a very important opportunity to deal with previously ignored problems. The Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 gave the states a very important opportunity to deal with previously ignored problems. Meanwhile, a long-developing imbalance between petroleum production and consumption collided with international politics, erupting into a crisis in US petroleum supplies. The encounter was expressed here on the east coast as a conflict of environmentalis​ts' concern for protecting the recreational and protein-​producing resources of our coastal waters with public and governmental demands for offshore domestic oils and gas pro duction. In New York the conflict developed against a background of earlier legislation which banned the exploitation of oil and gas deposits beneath Lakes Erie and Ontario for environmental reasons. Present conditions make inevitable some reassessment of New York's official position: a reluctance is embedded in the state constitution to exploit a resource commercially when that resource has natural values.
• Sea Grant Document Number:
  SUNY-Q-73-001
• Document Type:
  Program & Policy Document
• Rights Information:
  Public Domain
• Compliance:
  Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:8ebf3ec0732c11ea8cf78510d15ab9d2398d130f91059d0a416e0b3958db4330
• Download URL:
  https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/44251/noaa_44251_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 25.74 MB ]