{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["http://collinpeterson.house.gov/press-release/white-earth-awarded-600000-energy-department-biomass-project", "White Earth awarded $600,000 from Energy Department for biomass project", "2013-11-16", "2013", "2013-11", "Democrat", "House", "MN", "Collin Peterson", "P000258", "collinpeterson.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "(Washington, DC) -- Congressman Collin Peterson announced that the White Earth Tribal Council has been awarded $642,899 from the U.S. Department of Energy to create a woody biomass-fueled boiler facility at the boiler room of the Tribe\u2019s casino and hotel in Mahnomen, Minnesota.\n\"The White Earth Tribe should be applauded for their efforts to improve energy efficiency and to create more jobs on the reservation,\" Peterson said. \"Using sustainable biomass feedstock to heat the Shooting Star facility is a great way to save money and energy.\"\nThe facility will be a 5 million BTU-per hour capacity boiler and will supply hot water heat the casino. Their existing boilers are 1992 vintage and are due for replacement. This action will offset approximately 60 percent of the casino\u2019s current fossil fuel use of fuel oil and propane. The White Earth Tribal Council will match the award funding to complete the cost of the project.\nAccording to the tribe, this project integrates with the cultural, social and long-term energy goals of the Tribe and represents their efforts to put into practice environmentally sound, low impact, sustainable technologies that are not inconsistent with maintaining cultural traditions or depleting local natural resources while potentially creating new technology-based employment for tribal members.\nThe environmental benefits and impacts from installation of this facility on the Reservation are: elimination of fossil fuel use at the Tribal casino, hotel and surrounding buildings as an energy source, reduced open burning of forest residuals, improved air quality due to reduced open burning, reduction of greenhouse gas emissions due to elimination of fossil fuels usage and diversion of crop and forest residues normally burned in the open, reduction in fossil fuels use.", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["http://collinpeterson.house.gov/press-release/white-earth-awarded-600000-energy-department-biomass-project"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.757306046783924, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}