The Osage Nation and United States won their bid to get a a wind turbine farm ejected from tribal land in Oklahoma after a decade-long suit against private developers.
Ejectment is an appropriate equitable remedy for the companies’ continued trespass, Judge Jennifer Choe-Groves said for the US District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma.
Starting in 2010, the companies leased about 8,400 acres of surface rights in Osage County to construct a commercial wind farm that entered operation in 2015.
The United States—which acts as trustee for the Osage Mineral Estate for the federally recognized Osage Nation—sued in 2014 ...
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