An Update on OREC’s Activities (October 2005)

[This is an edited version of an earlier post]  Like the companies we represent, OREC has learned to operate efficiently with a limited budget.  Since we organized in May, we have secured favorable provisions for ocean energy in the Energy Policy Act  through lobbying and coordination with other groups, sponsored a teleconference to brief members and potential members on the Energy Policy Act provisions, given presentations on ocean energy at industry conferences,  created this website which has been coordinated with a weblog to update members and the public on ocean energy and give the industry international visibility and most recently, offered comments in support of legislation that may help our industry.  Yet as much progress as we’ve made, there’s more work ahead, including most immediately, the Mineral Management Service’s upcoming rulemaking to implement a leasing program for alternative energy uses on the Outer Continental Shelf as well as a stakeholders meeting on removing barriers to development of tidal, current and wave technologies.   State tuned as we continue to represent the ocean energy industry in some of the challenges that lie ahead.