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Updated: 11:13 AM Nov 5, 2009
Wind Farm Stimulus Money For China?
All of the 240 wind turbines on 36,000 acres in West Texas will be made in a plant in China, producing Chinese jobs.
Posted: 10:35 AM Nov 5, 2009Reporter: associated press |
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WASHINGTON (AP) - A Democratic senator is calling on the Obama
administration to reject an expected request for economic stimulus
money for a $1.5 billion West Texas wind energy project.
The joint venture between U.S. and Chinese energy companies will be financed largely by China's export-import bank.
But Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., says the project organizers reportedly are planning to ask for 30 percent financing - or $450 million - from the federal stimulus program designed to produce
U.S. jobs.
Yet, all of the 240 wind turbines on 36,000 acres in West Texas will be made in a plant in China, producing Chinese jobs. So,
Schumer is writing Energy Secretary Steven Chu, urging the
administration to reject a request for a federal grant should one
arrive.
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