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Wind farm gets federal judge's OK despite Osage tribe's concerns
A federal judge has ruled that St. Louis-based Wind Capital Group LLC's proposed wind farm in northern Oklahoma can go forward over objections that it would interfere with the Osage Nation's ability to produce oil and gas from the same lands.
The ruling issued Thursday afternoon by U.S. District Judge Gregory Frizzell in Tulsa, Okla., comes just a day after the opening of a trial in the case.
December 17, 2011
by Jeffrey Tomich
in STLToday
A federal judge has ruled that St. Louis-based Wind Capital Group LLC's proposed wind farm in northern Oklahoma can go forward over objections that it would interfere with the Osage Nation's ability to produce oil and gas from the same lands.
The ruling issued Thursday afternoon by U.S. District Judge Gregory Frizzell in Tulsa, Okla., comes just a day after the opening of a trial in the case.
On one level, the dispute pitted green power vs. fossil fuels. More specifically, it matched Wind Capital's ability to erect turbines on northern Oklahoma's tall grass prairie against the 15,600-member tribe, which owns rights... [continue via Web link]
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