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"Chinese" Wind Farm in Texas: Green Jobs FAIL?
treehugger.com - 18 days ago
"Chinese" Wind Farm in Texas: Green Jobs FAIL?
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Green Jobs in China Cappy McGarr, a managing partner at private equity firm U.S. Renewable Energy Group, which is financing the project with China's Shenyang Power Group and Cielo Wind Power, said in a press release the project would "spur tremendous growth in the renewable energy sector and ...
bloomberg.com - 13 days ago
Backed Wind Farm, Senator Says (Update1)
— bloomberg.com — Nov. 6 (Bloomberg) -- The Obama administration should bar a $1.5 billion wind-farm project in Texas from receiving U.S. government stimulus funds because most of the power turbines would be made in China, Senator Charles Schumer said. “The idea that ... (more) Backed Wind Farm, Senator Says (Update1)

Comments vote down Switchboard, from NRDC found this 13 days agofound this
online.wsj.com - 18 days ago
Made Turbines to Fill U.S. Wind Farm
— online.wsj.com — REBECCA SMITH A Chinese wind-turbine company, with financing help from Beijing, has struck a deal to be the exclusive supplier to one of the largest wind-farm developments in the U.S., a sign of how Chinese firms are aggressively capitalizing on ... (more) Made Turbines to Fill U.S. Wind Farm

Comments vote down Green Diary found this 18 days agofound this
zanesvilletimesrecorder.com - 16 days ago
The Chinese navy is going blue water
— zanesvilletimesrecorder.com — Harvard historian Paul Kenned, in his "The Rise and Fall of Navies," wrote, "Those faster-growing economies can afford both guns and butter." China's tremendous economic growth has been accompanied by a quantum leap in China's naval build-up. Today, ... (more) The Chinese navy is going blue water

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“Chinese” Wind Farm in Texas: Green Jobs FAIL?
Ramsay Home — ... found the following on 2009-11-02 11:59:12: Treehugger wrote..."Chinese" Wind Farm in Texas: Green Jobs FAIL ?TreehuggerChina is widely perceived to be a place where Western green technology goes to get stolen -- a serious challenge for officials in both countries who want to ...and more Read the original article at, http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/11/chinese-wind-farm-texas-green-jobs-fail.php Follow more real-time stories about "green technology" at ...

Eco-Beat, 11/2
Green Daily — ... The Best Little Chinese Wind Farm in Texas? Here's a curve ball for you: Is a wind farm still green if the turbines are manufactured in China and shipped to Texas? It gets better; the Chinese developers are applying for US stimulus money. I guess green energy is green energy ... right? ...

Business Not As Usual: Hundreds Of Free Green Patents…And More
Triple Pundit: People, Planet, Profit — ... for some details.  Business significance: U1/C2 Speaking of patents: Chinese banks are underwriting a US$1.5 billion dollar wind farm in West Texas, built using…you guessed it…turbines made in China.  You won’t believe the cost analysis.  See “Chinese” Wind Farm in Texas: Green Jobs FAIL? for details.  Business significance: U5/C5 Walmart, in it’s remarkable drive for becoming a more sustainable and green retail leader, has tread of late into risk management territory formerly controlled solely by government.  The serious public policy questions arising from  ...

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"Chinese" Wind Farm in Texas: Green Jobs FAIL? — TreeHugger
photo: Chrishna via flickr The buzz around the green blogosphere today is another record-setting Chinese wind farm, with 240 turbines producing 648 megawatts. But this one isn't in Inner Mongolia -- it's in Texas. This $1.5 billion wind farm -- a US-China... Read the full story on ...