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Native Americans

Dec. 21, 2010

Ruling Jeopardizes Solar Project

A San Diego federal judge granted an American Indian tribe's request to temporarily halt a $2 billion, 6,500-acre solar project in the Imperial County desert, ruling the government had not consulted enough with the tribe in planning the pr


By Jason W. Armstrong


Daily Journal Staff Writer


A San Diego federal judge granted an American Indian tribe's request to temporarily halt a $2 billion, 6,500-acre solar project in the Imperial County desert, ruling the government had not consulted enough with the tribe in planning the project.


The ruling could spell the end of the Imperial Valley Solar Project and risk the company behind the project, Tessera Solar, losing out on federal s...

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