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"Chinese" Wind Farm in Texas: Green Jobs FAIL?

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... ...full story at TreeHugger

from TreeHugger on Mon, Nov 02 2009

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02 Jan 08 visit Wind farm on the way to Turpan, Xinjiang, China  »  YouTube videoWind farm on the way to Turpan, Xinjiang, China
30 Oct 09 visit Lone Star, Meet Red Star: China’s $1.5 Billion Wind-Power Deal in Texas  »  China Journal Another day, another big Chinese energy-related investment. This time it’s a $1.5 billion wind farm in Texas, paid for by Chinese banks and to be supplied with Chinese-made wind turbines.
20 Aug 09 visit 500 MW Chinese Wind Farm Begins Construction - To be Completed 2010  »  TreeHugger photo: Shave Gavin via flickr Announced back in October 2008, the first phase of what will be a 1.5 GW wind farm outside of Jiuquan city, Gansu Province, China has begun. Being built by electric utility China Huaneng Group, the initial 500 MW is expected...
11 Dec 08 visit Highest-altitude domestic wind farm begins operations  »  People's Daily Huaneng New Energy Industrial/HK Electric Dali Dafengba wind farm, the highest-altitude wind farm in China, which is also the first large-scale wind power project in Yunnan Province officially started operations after a year of construction. The...
01 Apr 08 visit Environment: Wind power in China.  »  Global Voices The green brothers on China's Green Beat Blog 中国绿色脉搏 post a video showing their visit to a Beijing Wind farm, and discussing the role of the UN's clean development mechanism on China's wind power development.
20 Apr 09 visit Vestas to Make Custom Wind Turbines for China  »  TreeHugger Vestas wind turbine. Photo: Wikipedia, CC The Wind is Always Greener Over There... You'd think that by now wind turbines would become commoditized. After all, wind is wind, right? Well, apparently not. Vestas, the wind turbine maker from Denmark, is...

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