OUTLOOK 2012 37th Annual Economic Outlook Seminar Presented by the Bureau of Business and Economic Research

Ranchers in Sidney, Montana, are receiving $1 million royalty
checks. Homeowners are renting unheated garages to oil workers
for $600 a month. And new technology has opened up 4 billion
barrels of oil in the Bakken, arguably the largest inland oil find in the U.S.in the past 50 years.

Is Montana’s eastern energy boom here to stay?

What does it mean for statewide employment?

Tax revenues?

Are we next in line for North Dakota’s payday?

Hear from Tom Richmond, administrator and petroleum engineer for
the Montana Board of Oil and Gas, as he discusses developments on
Montana’s new energy frontier and our prospects for future growth at the
37th Annual Economic Outlook Seminar.
At this half-day seminar and luncheon:

* The Bureau will highlight economic trends for local, state, and
national economies.

* Bureau economists Patrick Barkey and Paul Polzin will present
economic forecasts for each seminar city

* Experts will provide the outlook for Montana’s important
sectors: nonresident travel, health care, agriculture, real estate,
manufacturing, and forest products.

* Longtime Montana journalist, Ian Marquand, will moderate a
luncheon panel of community leaders and industry experts on
local economic issues.

Register at http://www.bber.umt.edu

or call (406) 243-5113 for more information.

Continuing education credits are available.

Groups of five or more may register at a discount online.

For full event info: http://www.matr.net/files/EconomicOutlookSeminar2012Flyer.pdf