Enel

The Osage tribe of Oklahoma got one historic victory for indigenous rights against the Italian energy giant Enel, accused of exploiting their land without permission in the drive towards the energy transition.After a long legal battle, the court ruled that Enel will almost have to pay $260 million to remove 84 wind turbines from the lands of the Osage Nation.This is one of the first rulings in the United States to require decommissioning of a wind project in operation;a subsequent trial will establish how much the company will have to pay in compensation. «Enel, it will cost you a fortune not to have asked us for a permit.That was all you had to do,” he told the Financial times the president of the Osage Minerals Council, Everett Waller, whose tribe had been massacred in 1900.Martin Scorsese's film also takes up their story, Killers of the Flower Moon, nominated for an Oscar.The film tells how the Osage people initially became rich with the discovery of oil on their land, b...