The British Have It All Figured Out

While debate over whether offshore wind developers can and should be allowed to construct sites on the Outer Continental Shelf without payment for leasing rights or royalties (see discussion in prior posting here, the Crown Estate of the United Kingdom owns offshore lands up to twelve miles out and is busy collecting money from leases for offshore windfarms on its offshore real estate - as reported in

Value Of Crown Estatae Rises by L2billion in a decade, Robert Verkaik, Legal Affairs Correspondent, The Independent, (7/9/03).