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Tribes investing in renewables now – lack of federal incentives make sure they’re seen at the margins and don’t achieve meaningful investment

Suagee 9 (Dean B. Suagee is of counsel to Hobbs, Straus, Dean and Walker, LLP, in Washington, D.C., and a member of the editorial board of Natu- ral Resources and Environment. He is a member of the Cherokee Nation, “Going “Code Green” in Indian Country” Natural Resources and Environment, Volume 23, Number 4, Spring 2009)

American Indian and Alaska Native tribes need to be part of making t………..it the “default” choice by providing incentives, subsidies, technical assistance, and favorable regulatory frameworks.

Most recent economic analyses project growth in renewable energy

Bossong 12 – (7/5/12, citing Maria van der Hoeven, executive director of the International Energy Agency, and a recent report from the IEA, Medium-Term Renewable Energy Market Report 2012, Kenneth, Executive Director of the SUN DAY Campaign. The SUN DAY Campaign is a non-profit research and educational organization founded in 1993 to promote sustainable energy technologies as cost-effective alternatives to nuclear power and fossil fuels, “IEA sees renewable energy growth accelerating over next 5 years,” http://www.iea.org/newsroomandevents/pressreleases/2012/july/name,28200,en.html)

Renewable power generation is expected to continue its rapid growth over the next five years, according to ………..renewable development and, in so doing, provides a key benchmark for both public and private decision makers.”

Advantage 1 is environmental leadership -

First internal link is perception – developing a green Native economy places the US in excellent stead internationally

LaDUKE et al 2009 (Winona LaDuke, Honor the Earth; Bob Gough Intertribal Council On Utility Policy; Tom Goldtooth, Indigenous Environmental Network; “Energy Justice in Native America A Policy Paper for Consideration by the Obama Administration and the 111th Congress,” www.ienearth.org/docs/EJ_in_NA_Policy_Paper_locked.pdf)

A GREEN ECONOMY IS KEY IN THE ……….. as a respected international leader.

Second is navigating international law – US allowing development of indigenous land resources is key to the lead on future treaty negotiations

Darian-Smith 10 (Eve Darian-Smith Global and International Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, “Environmental Law and Native American Law” Annu. Rev. Law Soc. Sci. 2010. 6:359–86 First published online as a Review in Advance on August 10, 2010)

LOOKING TOWARD THE INTERNATIONAL

The inadvertent yet increasing ……….. l law may be on trajectory whereby it becomes, if only in part, decolonized.

Incentives key – lack sets a roadblock to international perception

Brittain et al 10 (Anna Brittain Sheena Evans Amber Giroux Becca Hammargren Brock Treece Amy Willis “Energy and Climate Action on Tribal Lands: A Community Based Approach” May 2010, Donald Bren School of Environmental Science and Management University of California, Santa Barbara)

Climate change is a problem that many communities are working ……….. to a cleaner national energy portfolio, and set a national and international example.

Environmental leadership is the controlling internal link to extinction

Harris 1 (Paul G., Lecturer – Lignan University, Associate Fellow – Oxford Center for Environment, Ethics, and Society at Mansfield College, Oxford University, The Environment, International Relations, and U.S. Foreign Policy, p. 241-242)

In addition to promoting U.S. global interests, a more robust acceptance by the U.S. government of international equity as an objective of global environmental policy— ……….. (we would not be treating them as independent moral agents, to make a Kantian argument65).

And its key to overall US leadership

Walter 2 (Dr. Norbert Walter is Chief Economist emeritus of Deutsche Bank and Managing Director of Walter and Daughters Consult, Before his position at Deutsche Bank Group he was professor and director at the renowned Kiel Institute for World Economics and was a John J. McCloy Distinguished Research Fellow at the American Institute for Contemporary Studies at the Johns Hopkins University in Washington, DC (1986 – 1987). He holds a doctorate in economics from the Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main. Professor Walter was also a member of the Committee of Wise Men on the Regulation of European Securities Markets (“Lamfalussy group”), a member of the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee of the European Banking Federation, and Chairman of the International Conference of Commercial Bank Economists, “An American Abdication” August 28, 2002, http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/28/opinion/an-american-abdication.html?pagewanted=allandsrc=pm)

At present there is much talk about the unparalleled strength ………... -- and join the rest of the world in doing more to combat global warming and protecting the planet.

Soft power is key to mobilize action to solve emergent global crises

Joseph Nye, professor of international relations at Harvard University, 2008 or later (n.d.) (“American Power After the Financial Crises,” http://www.foresightproject.net/publications/articles/article.asp?p=3533)

Power always depends on context, and in today's world, ……….. its aims without the help of others.

Contention 2 is native economies –

Plan solves Native economic development – renewables key

Gough 2 (Robert Gough, Robert Gough, is an attorney (University of Minnesota) with graduate degrees in sociology (Fordham University) and cultural anthropology (University of Wisconsin), specializing in cultural ecology, and working with American Indian Tribes on cultural and natural resource issues over the past twenty years. He was the El Paso Energy Research Fellow at the Natural Resources Law Center, CU-Boulder, CO, working on technical and policy issues involved in connecting reservation based renewable generation on to the federal grid. He is presently a visiting professional at NREL's Wind Technology Center to increase outreach to Indian Country. He is a participating representative to the InterTribal Energy Network, the National Wind Coordinating Committee, Wind On The Wires, High Plains SEED, and the Environmental Justice Climate Change Initiative, among other organizations., “Indigenous Peoples and Renewable Energy: Thinking Locally, Acting Globally ~ A Modest Native Proposal for Climate Justice from the Northern Great Plains” Second National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit - Summit II Resource Paper Series October 23, 2002)

The northern Great Plains may also be seen ……….. with their federal treaty partners to help realize this potential.

Strong economies are key to Native cultural survival—it’s the only way to safeguard rights and identity

CARTER 6-12-2012 Writer for the Journal Record (M. Scott, “Former chief: Economic development crucial to tribes' future, sovereignty in Oklahoma”, 2012, Journal Record, Proquest)

Oklahoma's tribal nations should push economic development not just for jobs, but to secure and protect their tribal sovereignty, the former chief of the Cherokee Nation said ……….. he said. "We've been doing it for thousands of years." The Sovereignty Symposium continues through Wednesday.

Domestic development allows for international native development of economies

Suagee 92 (Dean B. Suagee, J.D., University of North Carolina, 1976; LL.M., The American University, 1989; Associate, Hobbs, Straus, Dean and Wilder, Washington, D.C., “ARTICLE: SELF-DETERMINATION FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AT THE DAWN OF THE SOLAR AGE” SPRING AND SUMMER, 1992 25 U. Mich. J.L. Reform 671)

Tribal colleges also might devote some attention to issues ……….. of development that they want for themselves and to draw on the experiences of other indigenous peoples in making those decisions.

Countries look to the US to set the model for native policy

Suagee and Stearns 94 (Dean B. Suageet Christopher T. Stearnstt, t Member of the Cherokee Nation and of counsel to Hobbs, Straus, Dean and Wilder, a Washington, D.C., law firm. tt MemberoftheNavajoNationandanassociatewithHobbs,Straus,DeanandWilder, a Washington, D.C., law firm. “Indigenous Self-Government, Environmental Protection, and the Consent of the Governed: A Tribal Environmental Review Process” HeinOnline -- 5 Colo. J. Int'l Envtl. L. and Pol'y 59 1994)

In the era when the human rights of indigenous peoples are recognized ……….. to tribal cultural values. These factors will help to make tribal environmental regulatory programs become not just functional but truly strong, because they will derive their just power from the consent of the governed.

Survival of Native culture solves human extinction—it’s key to every other impact

Weatherford 1994 (Jack, Anthropologist, Savages and Civilization: Who Will Survive?, pp. 287-291)

Today we have no local and regional civilizations. The world now stands united in a single, global civilization. Collapse in one part could trigger a chain reaction that may well ……….. as dead as the stones of Yaxchilán, and one day the descendants of some alien civilization will stare at our ruined cities and wonder why we disappeared.

Cultural integrity in the context of resource management key – shifts the dialogue toward resource rights for tribes

Burleson 11 (Professor Elizabeth Burleson has a LL.M. from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a J.D. from the University of Connecticut School of Law. She teaches at Pace Law School and has written reports for the United Nations. This chapter builds upon the author’s article Tribal, State, and Federal Cooperation to Achieve Good Governance, 40 Akron Law Review 207 (2007), “Tribes as Essential Partners in Achieving Sustainable Governance” in LEGAL STRATEGIES FOR GREENING LOCAL GOVERNMENT, (Hirokawa and Salkin, ed. ABA: 2012), January 2011)

The international recognition of the rights of peoples to internal ……….. of natural resources,24 and institutional attention to cultural stewardship may play a crucial role in strengthening consensus regarding indigenous peoples’ rights.

Plan: The United States federal government should substantially increase financial incentives for energy production on lands defined by 18 United States Code section 1151 for wind power and solar power.

Contention 3 is solvency –

Increasing incentives for renewable investment in native territories solves for investment, development of economies, and international signal

LaDUKE et al 2009 (Winona LaDuke, Honor the Earth; Bob Gough Intertribal Council On Utility Policy; Tom Goldtooth, Indigenous Environmental Network; “Energy Justice in Native America A Policy Paper for Consideration by the Obama Administration and the 111th Congress,” www.ienearth.org/docs/EJ_in_NA_Policy_Paper_locked.pdf)

GREEN ECONOMIES IN NATIVE COMMUNITIES:MASSIVE POTENTIAL,MAXIMUM IMPACT Providing clean renewable energy development and reversing the trend f ……….. the pressure on governments and Indigenous communities to cut down their forests, or issue large lease holdings. Support preservation of biodiversity and Indigenous rights in these areas.

· Imposing international sanctions and wood tariffs to prevent deforestation.

Plan resolves economic development in line with indigenous culture – also sends perception of native sovereignty globally

Kronk 10 (ELIZABETH ANN KRONK J.D., University of Michigan School of Law; B.A., Cornell University. Assistant Profes- sor of Law, University of Montana School of Law; Chief Judge, Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians Court of Appeals, ALTERNATIVE ENERGY DEVELOPMENT IN INDIAN COUNTRY: LIGHTING THE WAY FOR THE SEVENTH GENERATION, 46 Idaho L. Rev. 449 2009-2010)

Moreover, the development of alternative energy projects in ……….. the infrastructure required to support green energy."57

Framing the plan through federal trust responsibility is key – creates self sufficiency – actually developing energy is key too

Grossman 6 (Zoltán, Member of the Faculty in Geography / Native American and World Indigenous Peoples Studies, The Evergreen State College (Olympia, Washington), “International Indigenous Responses” in Climate Change and Pacific Rim Indigenous Nations, October 2006) Northwest Indian Applied Research Institute (NIARI), The Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington, USA)

Yet Indigenous peoples are not dealing entirely with a ……….. control of the energy economy—the status quo that generated the global climate change cri- sis in the first place.

Only the plan works – every strategy that isn’t federal incentives for renewables fails – plan reinvigorates the trust doctrine to reduce dependency on the government

Mills 6 (Andrew D. Mills Submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science In the Energy and Resources Group of the University of California, Berkeley, “Wind Energy in Indian Country: Turning to Wind for the Seventh Generation”)

The third justification for energy development is that energy development promotes economic development through building capacity within the tribe to manage and carry out projects. ……….. development for tribes because it builds capacity and promotes self-determination. Many tribes feel that without the funds from energy projects they would be chronically dependent on fickle federal funds.

Failure to support the Trust Doctrine leave no check on federal and state relationships with tribes – the trust doctrine can act as a successful balance of power of sovereignty within states

WILKINS AND LOMAWAIMA 2002 (David E. Wilkins, a member of the Lumbee Tribe, is associate professor of American Indian studies, political science, and law at the University of Minnesota and coauthor, with Vine Deloria, Jr., of Tribes, Treaties, and Constitutional Tribulations. K. Tsianina Lomawaima is an associate professor of American Indian Studies at the University of Arizona and the daughter of a former Chilocco student., Uneven Ground: American Indian Sovereignty and Federal Law, p. 69-72)

We turn our attention first to the recent phenomenon of ……….. be made, for preventing wrongs being done to them, and for preserving peace and friendship with them" (1 St. 50,52).