M’Chigeeng First Nation is the sole owner of the Mother Earth Renewable Energy (MERE) project, composed of two a 2 MW wind turbines built in 2014. M’Chigeeng First Nation was one of the early movers in the province, taking advantage of the 2009 Green Energy and Green Economy Act (GEGEA) and its cornerstone Feed-in-Tariff (FIT) programme . The unique ownership model of the MERE project drew the attention of academics from the University of Western Ontario as early as 2016. They reached out the Band leadership and after several years, a Band Council Resolution approved the research partnership in 2018. This research was funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada through their Insight Grant program.