shelf. There are now XXXXXX offshore platforms worldwide, accounting for such-and-such a percentage of global fossil fuel consumption.
             It was not long before the B.C. offshore became an area of interest for oil exploration. In 1957, British Columbia attempted to assert ownership of its offshore resources, claiming a "crown reserve" over areas of the continental shelf. This "crown reserve" required industry to seek licenses from the Province to drill. The next year, in 1958, Richfield Oil Corporation led a team that drilled five onshore wells and conducted marine seismic surveys in the Hecate Straight, between the Queen Charlotte Islands and mainland British Columbia. In 1959, British Columbia asserted a further crown reserve, this time over "petroleum and natural gas underlying the offshore area between the British Columbia mainland and a line approximately three miles off the west coast of the Queen Charlotte and Vancouver Islands." While some authors have referred to this crown
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