Bob Gough
Bob Gough, an attorney with graduate degrees in sociology and cultural ecology with over 35 years experience in tribal cultural and natural resource issues, is the secretary of the Intertribal Council On Utility Policy composed of 15 Tribes in the Northern Great Plains.
As first director of the Rosebud Sioux Tribal Utility Commission, Gough participated in WAPA negotiations for tribal allocations of federal hydroelectric power. He co-chaired the national assessment’s Native Peoples/Native Homelands Climate Change Workshop, and is an author for the National Climate Assessment for the Great Plains and Tribal Chapters.
A member of the Western Governors’ Clean and Diversified Energy Advisory Committee, Gough worked with the DOE’s Wind Powering Native America Initiative, and through Intertribal COUP supports tribal interests in building sustainable homeland economies based upon efficient and future proofed homes and renewable energy generation. The COUP plan for tribal wind development across the West was awarded the inaugural World Clean Energy Award for Courage, in Basel, Switzerland.