Washington tidelands and shoreline oil and gas bans
- Record
p09-WA-rec-05- State
- WA
- Category
- requirements · leasing_moratorium
- Status
- collected
- Period
- current
- Quality
- Unreviewed
- Review state
- Pending review
- Native ID
WA-TIDELANDS-MORATORIUM
Fields
- shoreline prohibition
- Surface drilling for oil or gas, and infrastructure for handling or transporting oil or gas extracted from the Outer Continental Shelf adjacent to Washington waters, is prohibited in shorelines of the state seaward from the ordinary highwater mark.
- tidelands moratorium
- (2) There shall be no leasing of Washington's tidal or submerged lands extending from mean high tide seaward three miles along the Washington coast from Cape Flattery south to Cape Disappointment, nor in Grays Harbor, Willapa Bay, and the Columbia river downstream from the Longview bridge, for purposes of oil or gas exploration, development, or production.
Evidence
- tidelands moratorium:
(2) There shall be no leasing of Washington's tidal or submerged lands extending from mean high tide seaward three miles along the Washington coast from Cape Flattery south to Cape Disappointment, nor in Grays Harbor, Willapa Bay, and the Columbia river downstream from the Longview bridge, for purposes of oil or gas exploration, development, or production.
https://apps.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=43.143.010 · Search-result snippet, subsection (2) · sourcep09-WA-src-06· visitp09-WA-visit-06 - shoreline prohibition:
Surface drilling for oil or gas, and infrastructure for handling or transporting oil or gas extracted from the Outer Continental Shelf adjacent to Washington waters, is prohibited in shorelines of the state seaward from the ordinary highwater mark.
https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2019-20/Pdf/Bill%20Reports/House/6432-S.E%20HBA%20ENVI%2020.pdf · Search-result snippet, analysis sentence · sourcep09-WA-src-17· visitp09-WA-visit-17
Provenance
Collected 2026-10-05 by agent p09-WA.