As we await Lease Sale 261, Carol Hartgen, my long-time colleague and founder of the 5 year OCS leasing program, voiced astonishment that the new 5 year plan was only for the purpose of scheduling 3 lease sales required by Congress as prerequisites to offshore wind lease auctions. Carol provides some historical context:
I couldn’t believe the release of the final Five Year Program as just a necessity to hold offshore wind sales. Back in 1969, Carolita Kallaur, Joan Davenport and I worked on a 5-year schedule based on the supply and demand needs of the nation. That approach, which developed into the elaborate process in the OCS Lands Act and the passage of the National Environmental Policy Act, is a thing of the past. Over.those 50 plus years, politics from both sides of the aisle always drove the changes
Bud's Offshore Energy (BOE) 