Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Petroleum
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
The Submerged Lands Controversy
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Petroleum
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
The Tidelands Oil Controversy
Author: Ernest R. BartleyPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292780273
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
This study is not written from the narrow perspective of “Who gets the oil?” It is a thoughtful probing of an issue—the ownership and control of the submerged soils of the marginal sea—the outcome of which may go far to determine the division of powers between states and nation under the American federal system. American constitutional law, international law, theory of federalism, American politics, the machinations of pressure groups, use of propaganda techniques, and issues of social and economic policy—all these features of American government and many more are inherent in the controversy. In 1947, in a precedent-making decision, the Supreme Court enunciated the principle that the federal government, not the states, has “paramount rights in and power over” the marginal seas which border the coastal states, and has “full dominion over the resources under that water area, including oil.” For more than 150 years the littoral states had exercised uncontested jurisdiction and ownership over the marginal-sea area, subject only to the powers specifically granted to the national government by the Constitution. The states had regulated the fisheries within the three-mile limit, applying state laws to vessels licensed under federal statutes. Long before oil possibilities were thought of, they had granted or leased areas in the marginal seas to private persons and corporations for purposes of land reclamation and harbor development, dredging for sand and gravel, development of oyster beds, and similar projects. These property rights can far exceed in value the wealth to be derived from petroleum. A just settlement of the issue, says the author, calls for restoration to the states of control of the marginal sea out to their historical boundaries—three miles in most cases; three leagues, or ten and one-half miles, in the case of Texas and the west coast of Florida. This study is based upon thorough investigation of all literature on the subject and personal interviews and correspondence with leaders on both sides of the controversy.
Submerged Lands ...
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the JudiciaryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Shore and Sea Boundaries
Author: Michael W. ReedPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Submerged Lands
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mineral resources in submerged lands
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Considers (82) S.J. Res. 20, (82) S. 940.
Shore and Sea Boundaries: Boundary problems associated with the submerged lands cases and the submerged lands acts (including recent developments in the international law of the sea)
Author: Aaron Louis ShalowitzPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geodesy
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
The Tidelands Oil Controversy
Author: Ernest R. BartleyPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477307206
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
This study is not written from the narrow perspective of “Who gets the oil?” It is a thoughtful probing of an issue—the ownership and control of the submerged soils of the marginal sea—the outcome of which may go far to determine the division of powers between states and nation under the American federal system. American constitutional law, international law, theory of federalism, American politics, the machinations of pressure groups, use of propaganda techniques, and issues of social and economic policy—all these features of American government and many more are inherent in the controversy. In 1947, in a precedent-making decision, the Supreme Court enunciated the principle that the federal government, not the states, has “paramount rights in and power over” the marginal seas which border the coastal states, and has “full dominion over the resources under that water area, including oil.” For more than 150 years the littoral states had exercised uncontested jurisdiction and ownership over the marginal-sea area, subject only to the powers specifically granted to the national government by the Constitution. The states had regulated the fisheries within the three-mile limit, applying state laws to vessels licensed under federal statutes. Long before oil possibilities were thought of, they had granted or leased areas in the marginal seas to private persons and corporations for purposes of land reclamation and harbor development, dredging for sand and gravel, development of oyster beds, and similar projects. These property rights can far exceed in value the wealth to be derived from petroleum. A just settlement of the issue, says the author, calls for restoration to the states of control of the marginal sea out to their historical boundaries—three miles in most cases; three leagues, or ten and one-half miles, in the case of Texas and the west coast of Florida. This study is based upon thorough investigation of all literature on the subject and personal interviews and correspondence with leaders on both sides of the controversy.
Hearings
Author: United States. Congress. Joint Committee ...Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1726
Book Description
Submerged Lands
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Interior and Insular AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
Title to Submerged Lands Beneath Tidal and Navigable Waters
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the JudiciaryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marine mineral resources
Languages : en
Pages : 1722
Book Description