Judge rules against big wind developer in northeastern Oklahoma

A federal judge has issued a big win for an Oklahoma Indian tribe regarding a massive wind farm on tribal land.

The Tulsa World and Daily Caller report that U.S. Court of International Trade Judge Jennifer Choe-Groves, issued the ruling against a major green energy company based in Rome with an American presence, ordering them to tear down an enormous wind farm that the firm had constructed in Osage County, Oklahoma.

The tribe has been against the project because of its location relative to burial sites and the ecological damage inflicted upon eagles by the massive turbines.

The Tulsa World says the wind farm had been the subject of a lengthy legal battle between the Osage Nation and the developer, spanning back to 2011, when the tribe filed a lawsuit in federal court alleging that the development illegally deprived the tribe of access to the mineral deposits beneath the site of the project.