Wind at their backs: Powerful Democrats help Chinese energy firm chase stimulus money

[BonnieJW]

WASHINGTON — Top Democratic fundraisers and lobbyists with links to the White House are behind a proposed wind farm in Texas that stands to get $450 million in stimulus money, even though a Chinese company would operate the farm and its turbines would be built in China.

The farm’s backers also have close ties with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., who, at the height of his hard-fought re-election bid this fall, helped blunt congressional criticism over stimulus dollars possibly going to create jobs in China by endorsing a proposal by the Chinese company to build a factory in his home state. Although his campaign received thousands of dollars in donations from the wind farm’s backers and Reid stood on stage with them at a campaign event they hosted, his office declined to answer any questions about the wind farm’s organizers or their plans for Nevada.

The wind farm, first announced more than a year ago, would consist of 300 2-megawatt wind turbines, each perched atop a 26-story-tall steel tower and spinning three blades — each half the length of a football field. The farm would span three counties and 36,000 acres in West Texas land best known for its oil. Dubbed the Spinning Star wind farm, the project’s 600-megawatt capacity is, theoretically, enough to power 180,000 American homes and would be the sixth-largest wind farm in the country.

It is being planned by an unusual joint partnership between the U.S. Renewable Energy Group, a Dallas investment firm with strong ties to Washington and the Democratic Party, and A-Power Energy Generation Systems, an upstart Chinese supplier of wind turbines. Filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission indicate the Chinese are bringing financing and the turbines.

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[Newest Reality]

1. Go China!

The people there should get something for stewing in the industrial filth and environmental cesspools of death that their Overlords, colluding with ours, have brought to them most rapidly.

Can't root for the pullout of everything here and the profitable game of creating a cheaper, more docile, more productive, (as in, work until you drop or fall down) labor market here by way of the decimation of systematic, pre-tested, shock and awe.

You can see the shadow of the Grim Reaper spread-out across the land here! His scythe is named "Profit!"

[truedelphi]

2. Once you realize that thirty million of China's "most productive work force"

are in prison, with absolutely no salary, and only the perk of being able to keep their internal organs for a job well done, you realize we cannot expect to compete until a good many of us are in camps.

Which will only serve to re-educate us environmental, and informational "terrorists" as to the misery we were creating while remaining free.