Native Wind Powering America
Congratulations! The new turbine at Fort Berthold North Dakota completed in the fall of 2005. |
Indian Tribes in the nation’s heartland are involved in an unprecedented effort to harness the inexhaustible wind resources of the Dakotas to generate renewable power.
The wind turbine at right was recently put into operation on the Ft. Berthold reservation in North Dakota.
An additional 110 MWs of renewable wind energy are on the intertribal drawing boards, with another 30MWs at Rosebud Sioux reservation, and an 80MW project to be distributed on eight reservations along the Missiouri River. These carbon-free resources will conserve water, enhance downwind air quality, and build sustainable reservation economies that broaden contemporary tribal opportunities.
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President Clinton accepts a Native Wind T-shirt from Intertribal COUP at the recent inagural meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative in New York on September 15-17. It was presented on behalf of Native Energy which offset 1,000 tons of C02 from the meeting's "carbon footprint" -- use of air travel, hotels and other forms of energy. These "offsets," courtesy of Marshall Street Management, helped finance the construction of a 65 kW wind turbine built by the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nations at Ft. Berthold in North Dakota on September 30, 2005.
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