Bob Gough
Secretary, IntertribalCOUP.org
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Sustainable Options for Clean Energy in Indian Country: Generating More and Using Less
Bob Gough is an attorney with graduate degrees in sociology and cultural ecology, with over 30 years experience and two law fellowships on tribal cultural and natural resource issues.
The first director of the Rosebud Sioux Tribal Utility Commission, Gough participated in WAPA negotiations for tribal allocations of federal hydroelectric power. He is the secretary of the Intertribal Council On Utility Policy, an organization composed of federally recognized Indian tribes in the Northern Great Plains providing a forum on rights and resources for utility services on tribal lands, and co-chairs the national assessment’s Native Peoples/Native Homelands Climate Change Workshop, part of the national assessment on climate change and variability through the United States Global Change Research Program and has participated in the Kyoto Protocol COPs 6 in The Hague and the COPs 6b in Bonn as part of the Indigenous Peoples delegation. He also maintains a private law practice in indigenous rights.
A member of the Western Governors’ Clean and Diversified Energy Advisory Committee, Gough contracts with the Department of Energy (DOE)-Wind Powering America program’s Wind Powering Native America Initiative, and co-directs the NativeWind.org supporting partnerships between ICLEI-Cities for Climate Protection and the Intertribal COUP Tribes interested in building sustainable homeland economies based upon efficiency and renewable energy. The Intertribal COUP plan for tribal wind development across the West was recently recognized with the inaugural World Clean Energy Award forCourage, in Basel, Switzerland.
