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yeah i'm not really sure how the availability of parcels gets determined, whether there are hearing processes or some inter-agency thing that happens or what, but there'd (logically anyway) have to be some process that managed to balance stakeholder interests. so fishing areas would be out, obviously. i know there's alot of shellfish activity in the gulf, so that'd require pushing heavy industrial uses out to sea.
and tourism, like ring said.
i suspect there are other factors.
but once parcels are up for lease, they enter into the wonderful world of minerals management, which sounds like a farce. check out the IG report i linked earlier...it's pretty amazing stuff. i'm reasonably sure that had this not happened, that report would have had no attention and no publicity and woulda been more a snapshot of an ongoing relationship between petroleum and it's "inspectors" that involves all kinds of gift and job exchanges and sometimes a little crank...but i digress.
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