Onshore impacts of offshore oil : proceedings of the International Conference on Oil and the Environment, Scotland 1980, held in the Pollock Halls, University of Edinburgh, 28 September-1 October

This collection of chapters by different authors focuses on the North Sea coastal lands. It looks at environmental factors, strategy and development, planning and community issues, and hazards and control. It ends by summarising UK and Norwegian viewpoints. This publication comprising the papers given at the first conference held on North Sea Oil and its economic, social and environmental impacts, Edinburgh, September 1980. Contributions were made by leaders from industry, government and academia, drawn from the UK, Norway, the European Commission and the USA. It describes the genesis of an industry entering remote pristine marine and terrestrial environments as well as urban settings involving crucial land use policy decisions and the impacts on marine ecology. It examines at environmental factors, strategy and development, planning and community issues, and hazards and control. Representing fundamental policy and strategic decision-making, this work remains an essential source of research material of application to all new offshore and onshore field development projects.