SOUTH DAKOTA SIOUX ANNOUNCE WIND PROJECT

[trailmonkee]

Source: Outside magazine

Leaders from six Sioux groups announced today that they plan to build a massive wind farm on tribal land in South Dakota. Speaking at the annual Clinton Global Initiative  America meeting in Chicago, representatives from the Cheyenne River, Oglala, Crow Creek, Rosebud, Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate, and Yankton Sioux tribes said that the planned development would generate between one and two gigawatts of power annually and could pour as much as $3 billion into South Dakota's economy.

The tribes plan to raise raise initial funding via a campaign on Rally.org, and will finance the rest of the project through the sale of bonds. "The Sioux Wind Project will demonstrate that community-support and community-funding can help push renewable-energy projects forward," Rally CEO Tom Serres said in a press release

Read more: http://www.outsideonline.com/news-from-the-field/South-Dakota-Sioux-Announce-Wind-Project.html

[rurallib]

1. where will they run the pipeline?

[existentialist]

2. Sioux Tribes in sioux Dakota have been seeking to develop wind power for years

the difficulty is that the also need to build tran mission lines, or at least someone needs to build tran mission lines.

Perhaps this can be done.

Perhaps it will be done, but it is necessary for any significant wind electric development, and so far it has not been done.

[bucolic_frolic]

3. Hope they succeed

I fear Big Oil and Wall Street will be none too cooperative
with Native American investments in alternative energy.

Mainstream electric companies will be needed to connect
their power to the outside world.

Perhaps government can play a role, such as in the TVA?

[Codeine]

4. DANGER!! DANGER!!

[font size=5 color=red face=impact]FLYING TURBINE PARTS DESTROY ENTIRE RESERVATION!! HUNDREDS DEAD!!

CANCER CLUSTERS!![/font]

[font size=5 color=red face=impact]CANCER CLUSTERS!![/font]

[font size=9 color=red face=impact]CANCER CLUSTERS!![/font]

[zappaman]

6. You forgot about the screaming, tree-climbing coyotes. n/t

[uppityperson]

9. snort. and k&r for the op

[treestar]

14. lol

Read all about it in the East county news!

[Iliyah]

5. I hope they succeed!

[tclambert]

7. Wait, wait, wait. Since when do American Indians get to own anything of value?

Oh, I get it. We let them build it, then the white men will steal it from them. Very traditional.

[WillyT]

8. HUGE K & R !!! - Thank You !!!

[Mopar151]

10. It is far better that we have native American linemen,

riggers and turbine mechanics than we create more Native American blackjack dealers and bartenders.

[trailmonkee]

13. :)

[Marrah_G]

11. awesome

[Mnemosyne]

12. K&R nt

[Comrade Grumpy]

15. There's plenty of wind in South Dakota. Not much else.