Tournament: NCFA | Round: AFF | Opponent: everyone | Judge: lots of them
TERA regulations deter investment and stifle Native control over energy development---reform is necessary to boost Native sovereignty and effective renewable energy production
Kronk 12—Assistant Professor, Texas Tech University School of Law (Elizabeth, Tribal Energy Resource Agreements: The Unintended "Great Mischief for Indian Energy Development" and the Resulting Need for Reform, 29 Pace Envtl. L. Rev. 811)

Many tribes  … tutelage."

Reforming TERA is key to outside investment and Native ownership
Royster 12—Professor of Law and Co-Director, Native American Law Center, University of Tulsa College of Law (Judith, Tribal Energy Development: Renewables and the Problem of the Current Statutory Structures, 31 Stan. Envtl. L.J. 91)

The non-minerals … than an opportunity

Thus the plan: The United States Federal Government should end restrictions that allow the Secretary of the Interior to block production of wind energy in Tribal Energy Resource Agreements.  

we don’t read a tag on this one
Powell and Curley 9—Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Appalachian State—AND—Researcher, Diné Policy Institute, Navajo Nation (Dana and Andrew, K’e, Hozhó, and Non-governmental Politics on the Navajo Nation: Ontologies of Difference Manifest in Environmental Activism, http://www.ram-wan.net/documents/05_e_Journal/journal-4/5-powell.pdf)FLD=Fundamental Laws of the Dine

In this paper, we explore … is never fully foreseeable

Adv 1: Tribal Economy

Unemployment on reservations is now 80-90 percent.
Bender 6-12 (Albert, historian and attorney specializing in Native American law, Native Americans left out of economic recovery, as always, http://www.peoplesworld.org/native-americans-left-out-of-economic-recovery-as-always-2/) AL

Indian America, looking at the historical record, would have found little reason to rejoice at the so- …
exclusive of reservations.

Solve for tribal poverty – job creation, no taxation, coexistence with current traditions
Masterson 2010
American Indian Law Review, Vol. 34, No. 2 (2009-2010), pp. 317-358, Crystal
Because of the vast amount … attract new industry.

Scenario 1: Dumping
Their poor economic condition is what allows tribes to be blackmailed and coerced by government and corporate entities into using native land for nuclear waste dumps
Brook 98’ - (Dan, Sociology professor at Cal Berkley, "The Environmental Genocide: Native Americans and Toxic Waste." American Journal of Economics and Sociology, January 1998, http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/3487423) AL
One very significant … exploratory grants as well

The nature of colonialism has changed—no longer content with simply stealing Native land, the federal government has pursued a policy of resource exploitation, making indigenous people economically dependent on nuclear dumping and mining
LaDuke 99 Native American environmental activist, All Our Relations: Native Struggles for land and life, p. 2-3

There are over 700 … tribal governments and states.'

Despite promising gestures from the Obama administration, its nuclear dumping policy promises more of the same—the systematic targeting of Indian lands for the disposal of radioactive waste
Gunter 12 Linda Pentz, international specialist and director of media and development at Beyond Nuclear, “BRC report continues shameful history of targeting Native American communities for radioactive waste dumps,” 12 January 2012, http://www.beyondnuclear.org/home/2012/1/26/brc-report-continues-shameful-history-of-targeting-native-am.html  myost

Today's final report … radioactive waste dumps.

The impact to this is cultural genocide—waste disposal threatens the very way of life of natives
Edwards 11 Nelta Edwards, associate professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Alaska-Anchorage, “Nuclear Colonialism and the Social Construction of Landscape in Alaska,” Environmental Justice 4.2 (2011): 109-114, http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/pdfplus/10.1089/env.2010.0023  myost

It is important to … to keep my land clean

Inaction on rectifying Indian exploitation results in an ongoing campaign of concealed violence against Native Americans—we must challenge the idea that Indians are expendable to the cause of energy production
Gedicks 93 Al, professor of sociology at Wisconsin, The New Resource Wars: Native and Environmental Struggles Against Multinational Corporations, p. 43-44

In addition to the economic … the Navajo were expendable.

We have a moral obligation to prevent genocide first – it affects us all and leads to extinction.
Harff and Gur 81
(Barbara, Prof of Political Science Emerita @ U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD, “Humanitarian Intervention As A Remedy For Genocide,”, p. 40)
One of the most enduring … genocide is a universal concern

Adv 2: Dehumanization
The environmental assessment framework devalues indigenous knowledge, focusing exclusively on resources at the expense of culture and spirituality. This destroys indigenous societies.
Booth and Skelton, Ecosystem Science and Management Program, UNBC, '11
Annie Booth, Prof, Ecosystem Science and Management Program, University of Northern British Columbia, and Norm W. Skelton, Prince George Northern Sustainable Landscape Initiative (SLI), University of Northern British Columbia, "'We are Fighting for Ourselves' — First Nations' Evaluation of British Columbia and Canadian Environmental Assessment Processes," Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management, 13(3): 367-404, DOI: 10.1142/S1464333211003936 ACG WPT

Philosophical failures … does not meaningfully do

Denial of subjectivity to indigenous persons in discourse through control and “knowledge over” indigenous peoples establishes sovereign domination over and devalues them to objects
Carriere, Law, Tulane, ’94
Jeanne Carriere, Iowa Law Review, pp. 591-2 Language edited, indigenized
Though linked … as we know it.

This negates the value to life and justifies extermination.
Michael Dillon, Politics and IR, Lancaster, 99 Political Theory 27(2):
Quite the reverse … invaluable itself