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Archive Home > 2010 > January > 27 > Solar plant may bring brighter future for tribe

Solar plant may bring brighter future for tribe

Jemez Pueblo hoping first-of-its-kind project will be ticket out of poverty

By Susan Montoya Bryan / The Bulletin
January 27, 2010

JEMEZ PUEBLO, N.M. — A poverty-stricken Indian tribe that holds the sun and nature's other gifts sacred sees a bright future for itself in solar power.

The 3,000 members of the Jemez Pueblo are on the verge of building the nation's first utility-scale solar plant on tribal land, a project that....

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