A federal judge in Rhode Island has ruled against the Narragansett Indian Tribe in its fight to block construction of the nation’s first offshore wind farm. The tribe had sought a temporary restraining order against installation of a transmission cable, contending Indian artifacts had been discovered and improperly removed during the digging of a trench.
The tribe went to court against National Grid alleging it had not been notified after artifacts were found. But National Grid argued it had followed the terms of a memorandum of agreement signed with the tribe.
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