“Is Ocean Energy about to transform future property rights at sea?”
OREF held an online meeting on Tuesday 1st March where Dr Sandy Kerr Director of Heriot-Watt University’s International Centre for Island Technology discussed how the rapid expansion of offshore wind energy and other marine industries might lead to a transformation in ocean rights, and who has access to sea space. Using the example of land and how industrialisation redistributed land rights; possible future scenarios for our sea’s were considered.