A Federal Judge has thrown out a lawsuit against the City of Green Bay. It was filed in federal court by a corporation connected with the Oneida Tribe of Indians regarding an energy project.
The Oneida Seven Generations Corp. filed the suit after the Green Bay City Council revoked a conditional use permit for it to build a waste-to-energy plant that would have taken municipal waste and converted it into electricity. The plant was planned to be built on the city’s northwest side.
After the city backed out of the agreement, the corporation took it to the U.S. District Court of Eastern Wisconsin.
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The corporation sued the City of Green Bay for $16 million.
No one from the Seven Generations Corp. was available for comment.
Green Bay Mayor Jim Schmitt called it “great news for city taxpayers.”
The ruling by Judge William Griesbach stated that the city should not have revoked the permit but that it did follow “due process.”
The mayor’s statement also says that the city hopes to “move forward with mutual respect and relationships with the Oneida Nation.”
In his ruling, Griesbach said since the corporation had won an earlier case in the matter and had chosen not to pursue the energy project it is not entitled to damages.
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