Oregon: New frontier for energy?: Exploration - As oil, gas prices soar, the state gets its first lease request in years................
Thursday, March 09, 2006
MICHAEL MILSTEIN
It may not be time to rush off to the oil patch yet, but Oregon is seeing its own version of an oil and gas boom.
Industry requests have prompted the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, keeper of the government's mineral wealth, to offer 224,516 acres in Eastern Oregon for oil and gas exploration at an auction today. It's a land area equal to about a quarter of the Mount Hood National Forest and the largest amount put up for sale in Oregon in many years.
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