Right before Christmas, a federal judge put the bow on a present twelve years in the making for the Osage Nation of Oklahoma.
The Osage Nation won a massive ruling in Tulsa federal court on Wednesday that requires Enel to dismantle a 150-megawatt wind project it built in Osage County despite the tribe’s repeated objections. The tribe’s fight against Rome-based Enel began in 2011 and is the longest-running legal battle over wind energy in American history.
The Osage had been furiously and unrelentingly fighting the wind farm – Osage Wind – tooth and nail since word of the project first broke.
…The Osage Nation filed a federal lawsuit in October 2011 seeking to halt the construction of the wind farm, alleging that the project unlawfully deprived the Osage Nation of access to and the right to develop the mineral estate.
The nation’s claims were denied, and the case was…
