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Indian Tribes and Local Governments:
Reducing Carbon Emissions with Wind Power
R. Gough and P. Spears, Intertribal Council On Utility Policy
2005 RESOLUTION
Cities for Climate
Protection® (CCP)
The Cities for Climate Protection is ICLEI’s
flagship campaign, designed to educate
and empower local governments worldwide to take action on climate change. The
US CCP Campaign seeks to significantly reduce
US domestic greenhouse gas emissions by assisting
local governments in taking action to reduce emissions and realize
multiple benefits for their communities.
Strategic Approach
ICLEI uses the performance-oriented framework and methodology
of the CCP Campaign's 5 Milestones to assist US local governments
in developing and implementing harmonized local approaches for
reducing global warming and air pollution emissions, with
the additional benefit of improving community livability.
CCP Partners
ICLEI strengthens the service it provides its members and
campaign participants through strategic partnerships with
a variety of organizations, including:
NativeEnergy/Clean Air-Cool Planet
Intertribal Council On Utility Policy (Intertribal COUP)
The Climate Group
US Environmental Protection Agency, ENERGY STAR
ENVIRONMENT:
ENDORSING THE U.S.
MAYORS CLIMATE
PROTECTION AGREEMENT
Over 200 mayors from around the nation have signed the U.S.
Mayors Climate Protection Agreement D, which reads, in part:
The Energy Independence Day (EID)
Campaign is Intertribal COUP’s invitation
to the ICLEI US-CCP mayors concerned
about climate change and working to
reduce emissions (through efficiency and
renewable energy) to partner with Indian
tribes interested in converting their
abundant wind resources into renewable
electricity to provide sustainable
reservation -based economic development.
http://www.iclei.org/index.php?id=1118
“We urge the federal government and state governments to enact
policies and programs to meet or beat the target of reducing global
warming pollution levels to 7 percent below 1990 levels by 2012,
including efforts to: reduce the United States’ dependence on
fossil fuels and accelerate the develop-ment of clean,
economical energy resources and fuel-efficient technologies such
as conservation, methane recovery for energy generation, waste to
energy, wind and solar energy, fuel cells, efficient motor vehicles,
and biofuels;
“Cities will strive to meet or exceed Kyoto Protocol targets
for reducing global warming pollution by taking actions in our
own operations and communities such as: … Increase the use of
clean, alternative energy by, for example, investing in “green
tags”, advocating for the development of renewable energy
resources, recovering landfill methane for energy production,
and supporting the use of waste to energy technology; …”
http://www.usmayors.org/uscm/resolutions/73rd_conference/env_04.asp
CO2 Emissions Reduction:
A Voluntary City/Tribal
“Cap and Trade” Program
What if over 200 U.S. cities concerned
about global climate change purchased
tribal wind power to reduce CO2 emissions?
America’s urban load centers (the bright lights) consume
the bulk of conventional fossil-based electricity generation.
Much of that power
in the South and West
is delivered over the
federal transmission
grids. In the West, the
WAPA and BPA grids
connect many remote, rural
Indian reservations with these
urban load centers. Tribes, with
abundant wind, along with other
renewable resources, are arrayed
along the federal grid system.
Tribes have recently been able to directly purchase WAPA power
allocations from the federal dams as “preference customers”,
and could become renewable energy providers to the federal grid as
“preference vendors” of wind power for federal and urban
electricity customers. (See:“Tribal Wind Power: Recharging
the National Renewable Energy Grid in the West” poster).
Aspen Sets the Pace!
In the northern Great Plains and throughout the West, a decade
of persistent drought has reduced western rivers to record low
flows. WAPA, which markets power allocations from a diminishing
federal hydro resource through twenty year contracts, now relies
primarily upon the retail purchase of coal generation to supplement its dwindling hydropower supply.
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Energy Independence
Developing voluntary “clean energy trading partnerships”
(rural tribal generators in the country’s best wind regimes and
urban consumers in the nation’s ICLEI-CCP and the U.S.
Conference of Mayors’ cities) could use the limited physical
“capacity of the grid” to actually reduce the amount of fossil
generation that is now used to make up for the diminished
hydropower on the WAPA system. This voluntary “cap and
trade” program from the heartlands could significantly reduce
America’s carbon footprint with clean energy while building
rural economies based on renewable energy development.
ICLEI US-CCP and USCM cities, like Aspen, Colorado, which is
concerned about climate change and its impact upon winter
recreation, has extensively inventoried its “carbon footprint”
(energy input and carbon emission outputs) and has committed
to carbon reductions through efficiency and greater use of
renewable energy. Though a “preference customer” recipient
of a WAPA allocation, Aspen can no longer count its WAPA power
as a non-emissions resource, since it is, in fact, now “carbonated
hydropower”. Aspen has requested that its federal hydropower
allocation be 100% renew-able energy, so it can be counted in the
clean column. If WAPA can not provide 100% hydropower, Aspen
would prefer that WAPA supplement its allocation to the city with
Native Wind power, with Tribes considered as “preference
vendors”.
“ Entering the 21st century, a prime Native strategy
encourages the development of sustainable homeland
economies to ensure survival as Nations and for the
restoration of a more balanced climate for Mother
Earth. The Strategy includes the protection of naturally
diverse ecosystems and the use of renewable energy
technologies.”
~ Ronald L. Neiss, Rosebud Sioux Tribal Utility Commission
Tribes building sustainable rural economies through renewable energy:
Meeting urban demands for clean, emissions-free electricity.
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