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On Aug. 19, after the Observer went to press, representatives from some of the world’s biggest oil companies were set to gather in New Orleans to bid on oil and gas leases in the Gulf of Mexico. The Obama administration is auctioning 18 million acres of oil and gas tracts, some just nine miles from […]https://www.texasobserver.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/about-the-texas-observer.jpg740402