NOIA Advocacy Toolkit
Welcome to NOIA's advocacy toolkit. This page will provide you with the necessary tools to assist your organization in educating policy makers on the importance of providing access to the nation's Outer Continental Shelf for energy exploration and development in an environmentally responsible manner.
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General information:
- Basic Facts About Offshore Oil and Natural Gas
- Hurricanes and the Offshore Oil and Natural Gas Industry
Talking Points
- Basic Energy Facts
- Offshore Industry
- High Energy Prices Impact Consumers and Businesses
- High Energy Prices Impact Agriculture
State Energy Fact Sheets
Briefing Papers:
Surveys:
- Consumer Alliance for Energy Security polling results
- American Gas Association Offshore Energy Poll – Six Coastal States, June 2005
Consumer Alliance for Energy Security Offshore energy Poll – Florida specific, June 2006
Maps and Graphs:
- Over 80% of the Outer Continental Shelf is off-limits to exploration
- Sources of Oil in the Sea
- Gulf of Mexico Map:MMS 5-Year Planning Areas vs. Lease Sale 181 acreage
- Federal OCS Areas - Alaska and the Lower 48
- Map of the MMS 5-Year Proposed Leasing Program
- S.3711 - Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act of 2006 - Lease Sale 181/"181 South" Map
- H.R. 4761 - Deep Ocean Energy Resources Act - Offshore State Boundaries
- MMS Resource Assesment Page
Presentations:
State Resolutions and Legislative Letters:
- Arizona (Letter)
- Georgia (MMS 5-Year Plan Resolution - introduced 2006)
- Georgia (Resolution - introduced 2006)
- Idaho (Resolution - passed 2006)
- Kansas (Resolution - passed 2006)
- Montana (Resolution -- introduced 2007)
- Nevada (Resolution -- introduced 2007)
- North Dakota (Resolution – passed 2007)
- Oklahoma (Resolution - passed 2006)
- South Carolina (Bill - introduced 2006)
- South Carolina (Resolution - introduced 2006)
- Tennessee (Resolution - passed 2006)
- Utah (Resolution - introduced 2006)
- Utah (Letter)
- Virginia (Bill - passed 2006)
Templates:
Links:
- Agriculture Energy Alliance
- Campaign Harvest Moon: Agriculture Energy Alliance Campaign for OCS Access
- American Chemistry Council
- American Forest and Paper Association
- Consumer Energy Alliance
- Consumer Alliance for Energy Security
- National Association of Manufacturers
- U.S. Chamber of Commerece
For more information, please contact Jeff Krauss, Director of External Affairs.
