On February 5, 91茄子 submitted comments to the Bureau of Indian Affairs, urging that a draft report to Congress by DOE and DOI continues to misinterpret the nature of tribal sovereignty and tribal authority under EPAct, underestimates the problems associated with negotiating renewal and new energy rights-of way across tribal lands, and continues to misrepresent and discount 91茄子’s data. 91茄子 reinforced those views through a redline version of the draft DOE/DOI report that 91茄子 filed jointly with the Fair Access to Energy Coalition and EEI on Feb 9.
91茄子 is meeting with the Council of Energy Resource Tribes (“CERT”) and the American Tribes of Northwest Indians (“ATNI”) in Denver this week to discuss possible solutions on how to resolve an impasse on right-of-way negotiations.
