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Archive Home > 2008 > April > 18 > Drilling for energy deep in the earth

Drilling for energy deep in the earth

‘Nervously optimistic’ is how one geothermal explorer feels about the project

By Kate Ramsayer / The Bulletin
April 18, 2008

DESCHUTES NATIONAL FOREST — A steel drilling rig, with its white-and-blue scaffolding reaching 180 feet into the air, stands above the pine forest just west of Newberry National Volcanic Monument.

With Paulina Peak visible several miles away, generators hummed, and parts like....

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