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Oil for Timber
By Phil Hayworth
Pioneer Press
Fort Jones, CA
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
page E4, column 2
Oregon Representative Greg Walden has an idea he thinks will allow the government to continue a program that makes payments to rural counties hurt by federal cutbacks in logging: drill for oil off America's coasts.
Walden, a Republican, says the plan would provide a stable, long-term funding source for the so-called county payments program while boosting domestic energy production, and eventually lowering gasoline prices at the pump.
The timber program expires this year. It has provided hundreds of millions of dollars to Oregon, Idaho,and other states, mostly in the West, that once depended on federal timber sales to pay for schools, libraries and other services.
The bill would allow oil companies to drill in waters 75 miles from U.S. coastlines. Such drilling is now banned.
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