Council of Energy Resource Tribes Enters $3 Billion Biofuels and Bioenergy Agreement

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The Council of Energy Resource Tribes (CERT), an Inter-Tribal organization comprised of 54 U.S. tribes and four First Nation Treaty Tribes of Canada, has entered into a long-term development agreement for up to $3 billion in biofuels and bioenergy projects, states a CERT press release...

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ICT Staff. "Council of Energy Resource Tribes Enters $3 Billion Biofuels and Bioenergy Agreement." Indian Country Today. September 25, 2012. Article. (https://ictnews.org/archive/council-of-energy-resource-tribes-enters-3-billion-biofuels-and-bioenergy-agreement, accessed March 29, 2023)

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