North America’s Indigenous can Prosper with Alternative Energy

North America’s Indigenous can Prosper with Alternative Energy
By
Terrance H. Booth, Sr. – Tsimshian Tribe

Every Indigenous Tribe of North America can prosper through uses of alternative energy. Since America’s loves fossil fuel they spent over $300 Billion dollars for foreign fossil fuel. Already several tribes through the US Department of Energy have completed feasibility studies on alternative energy uses for their particular reservation setting. Every Tribe in North American has readily available solar, wind, water and biomass and it is to convert it into energy. Why? All of America by the year 2016, just a few years away will need 70% more electricity. Who can provide this needed energy of America? All the tribes can by the formation of Tribal Energy Parks to sell needed energy to utility companies of North America. Since America’s love affair with fossil fuel it is prime opportunity to capitalizing on their lagging with immediate implementation of tribal alternative energy projects for their particular state, for near by cities or towns.

A New Mexico tribe chose alternative energy over gaming and this well creates more earnings than gaming for there is a demand for more energy in America. It is readily notice the population growth like in Greater Phoenix, Arizona area one can see that the cities and towns are buffering right up to the reservation borders and who will provide the energy needs of urban growth in the cities and town of America. Tribes of North America can provide the needed energy. In Alaska over several years Southeast Alaska has been working upon the Southeast Alaska Intertie that will eventually hook-up with BC Hydro connecting all of the Southeast Alaska communities to the Intertie. There are three Alaska Native Tribes that can greatly benefit by this Southeast Alaska Intertie for the have available resources like hydroelectric power, tidal waters, biomass from forest and their fisheries all can be converted into needed energy. If an Intertribal approach is implemented the Southeast Alaska tribes can become a major player in the implementation of this Southeast Alaska Intertie. Southeast Alaska’s problem with waste all can be converted into energy. Alaska ‘s problem with waste it all can be converted into energy. Even the homes with its solid waste homes can produce their own electricity from the solid waste of there homes. Fish waste can be converted into energy and one Alaskan in Bering Sea area is making fish fertilizer out of what is ground up into tiny particles and dumped back into the ocean.

Tribes also can benefit with assurance of an environmental safe and secure setting on tribal lands receiving biomass and waste from cities and towns of America and can have full assurances of protecting Native Lands and be in the business of creating energy out of the waste of America. This writer knows a scientist that not only can implement in the creation of energy but also can produce a durable good that replaces aluminum, copper and steel. The inventor of this is not only a scientist but an economist as well, notes that nine major industries use aluminum, copper and steel. So with the production of a durable good that replaces aluminum, copper and steel tribes can be in the business of creating products for these nine major industries that uses aluminum, copper or steel. Thus, creating substantial tribal wealth for tribes that desire to prosper their tribe and have solutions for America’s waste problems.

Available resources are at hand for tribes to consider and this writer is busy networking with tribes to see how he can assist tribes desiring to prosper. Alternative energy is one of several ways to prosper a tribe and its about time we take steps to eliminate poverty and make it history for our tribal people. Possibilities are the hands of tribes. Let us begin to take positive steps toward substantial wealth development through your tribal decisions and from your tribal perspective.