Suggestion for alternative allowance of offshore drilling.

Allow offshore oil drilling if the firm wanting to drill first builds an offshore wind/wave or whatever green power plant that produces some X amount of energy per year per square kilometer of mineral rights they want to have (say X is 1-5% per year of the estimated total energy in the minerals drilled for).

After they build the plant and as long as they keep it in good working order, and find a way to deliver that power to market, then they can drill for oil or natural gas and produce it.

Then they can keep the green power plant and sell it or whatever.