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New York City - The Clinton Global Initiative invited Gough following its stated guidelines of being a conference for people who get things done and offer real solutons. By conference end, over $1.25 billion had been pledged by attendees toward speciifc commitments for building new solutions.

NativeEnergy was selected as one of just two organizations in the world selected to provide the carbon offsetting green tags for this global gathering - the other being from Nigeria.

NativeEnergy is now Native-Owned!

Intertribal COUP Executive Council and the founders of
NativeEnergy: Terry Fredericks (Vice President, COUP), Tom Boucher (President, Native Energy), Bill Schumacher (Treasurer, COUP), Bob Gough (Secretary, COUP), Tom Stoddard (VP/GC,NativeEnergy), and Pat Spears (President, COUP)

in Rapid City early August working out the terms to make NativeEnergy ... Native owned, on behalf of the participating Tribes of Intertribal COUP.

Basel - Intertribal COUP has won a World Clean Energy Award- presented Friday, June 15, at the traditional "Faktor 4- Festival" in Basel, Switzerland to honor the world's premiere projects promoting the large-scale use of renewable energies.In this awards process, Europe and the World have once again 'discovered' American Indians, but this time it is in recognition of the work and aspirations of the Tribes of the Intertribal Council On Utility Policy (COUP).

Intertribal COUP was singled out for the jury's "Special Award for Courage" for their innovative plan to build utility-scale tribal wind projects on reservations in the northern Great Plains through the Intertribal COUP/Rosebud Sioux Environmental Justice Revitalization Project: Tribal Wind Power Demonstration Project Plan. by longtime environmental champion Worldwatch. The Awards provide a showcase for new standards in applying clean energy solutions and renewables.