Green Energy Companies Gave $250,000 to Anti-Pipeline Tribe

Source: Washington Free Beacon | November 16, 2016 | Lachlan Markay

The donations came just days after protests against Dakota Access Pipeline began

Two green energy companies made six-figure donations to a North Dakota Native American tribe days after the tribe began protesting a controversial oil pipeline that passes near its reservation, a review of tribe documents shows.

On April 5, the Standing Rock Sioux’s tribal council unanimously voted to accept two $125,000 donations from ConEdison Development and Fagen Inc., a green energy design and construction company, according to council meeting minutes.

ConEdison Development, an unregulated subsidiary of utility company Consolidated Edison, acquired and began construction on a wind power facility near the Standing Rock reservation last year. Fagen was a contractor on the project.

ConEdison’s chief executive told a North Dakota news station in April that its donation to the tribe was meant as a show of appreciation for the Standing Rock’s cooperation in building the Campbell County Wind Farm.

However, the timing coincides with intense tribal opposition to the planned Dakota Access Pipeline. The donations from ConEdison and Fagen came a year after the construction of the Campbell County Wind project, but just four days after the tribe’s pipeline protests began.

The Dakota Access Pipeline would carry crude oil from North Dakota’s shale formation, on a route that passes near the Standing Rock reservation, through South Dakota and Iowa to Illinois, where it would link up with existing pipelines to carry the oil to Gulf Coast refineries.

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