The Fond du Lac Reservation Business Committee ratified the Kyoto
Protocol on February 13, 2007, pledging to obtain 20 percent of
electricity use from renewable energy resources by 2020. The Fond
du Lac Reservation Business Committee assigned the task of
developing an energy management plan to the Resource Management
Division and the Planning Division.
Fond du Lac will incorporate energy
efficiency and renewable energy into the design and construction of
all future buildings, which will lower life cycle maintenance and
operation costs. These buildings will be used to educate the
community about energy efficiency and will assist in our efforts to
expand sustainable development on the Fond du Lac Reservation. A
strategic energy plan will further the goals of managing,
conserving, and restoring the natural resources of the Fond du Lac
Band of Lake Superior Chippewa.
The Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior
Chippewa is assessing the potential for: commercial wind power,
economic feasibility for a possible hydroelectric project, use of
passive solar and daylighting in a LEED Resource Management
building, installing a 12 kW solar electric project on a LEED
Resource Management Building and powwow arbor, utilizing biomass
from byproducts of the Tribe’s logging and fuel reduction operations
to produce Green Power.
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