{"id":402752,"date":"2010-03-08T08:21:35","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T13:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greenenergyreporter.com\/?p=6835"},"modified":"2010-03-08T08:21:35","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T13:21:35","slug":"schumer-at-odds-with-obama-administration-policy-on-shenyang-power-texas-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/402752","title":{"rendered":"Schumer at Odds With Obama Administration Policy on Shenyang Power Texas Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenenergyreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/v1\/img\/cat\/funding.png\" width=\"8\" height=\"8\" alt=\"\" title=\"Funding\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenenergyreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/v1\/img\/cat\/policy.png\" width=\"8\" height=\"8\" alt=\"\" title=\"Policy\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenenergyreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/v1\/img\/cat\/wind.png\" width=\"8\" height=\"8\" alt=\"\" title=\"Wind\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Last week Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) &#8212; and three other Senator &#8212; urged the Obama administration <a href=\"http:\/\/greenenergyreporter.com\/2010\/03\/group-of-democratic-senators-want-to-halt-construction-of-stimulus-funded-wind-farm\/\" >to cut stimulus funding<\/a> for renewable energy projects that offshore their manufacturing.  <span id=\"more-6835\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/greenenergyreporter.com\/2009\/11\/schumer-no-hearings-planed-for-now-on-chinese-backed-texas-wind-farm\/\" >This is the second time Schumer targets foreign renewable energy projects<\/a>, in both instances he&#8217;s focused his criticism <a href=\"http:\/\/greenenergyreporter.com\/2009\/10\/chinese-and-u-s-developers-team-up-to-build-600-mw-texas-wind-farm\/\" >on a Chinese, 600 megawatts, $1.5 billion wind farm<\/a> to be built in Texas by a joint venture between U.S.-based Cielo Wind Power\u00a0and China&#8217;s Shenyang Power Group, a unit of A-Power Energy Group.<\/p>\n<p>Well, it turns out that the Shenyang Texas wind facility was actually arranged by the Obama administration, which earlier this year brokered a deal with the Chinese government to allow more renewable energy investments to flow into both countries.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday Jeffrey Ryser at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.platts.com\/weblog\/powerlines\/2010\/03\/07\/us_stimulus_mon.html\" >Platts&#8217;s Power Line<\/a> blog wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>What should one make of the fact that the deal with the Chinese was arranged in the first place by the US Trade Representative, Ron Kirk, who, in a <em>quid pro quo<\/em> arrangement last fall, agreed to have the Chinese sell into the US market in exchange for US companies&#8217; selling into the Chinese market, which has been expanding at the same annual rate as the US&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Not only is the Shenyang project backed by the Chinese government,\u00a0 it also is supported, at least indirectly,\u00a0 by the Obama administration. That\u2019s some pretty stellar backing and explains why, so far the White House, and some\u00a0Senate colleagues, <a href=\"http:\/\/greenenergyreporter.com\/2010\/03\/this-week-in-green-energy-cap-and-what\/\" >have downplayed Schumer&#8217;s concerns<\/a>, describing them as none-issues.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GreenEnergyReporter\/~4\/yNh-AY2Ims0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) &#8212; and three other Senator &#8212; urged the Obama administration to cut stimulus funding for renewable energy projects that offshore their manufacturing. This is the second time Schumer targets foreign renewable energy projects, in both instances he&#8217;s focused his criticism on a Chinese, 600 megawatts, $1.5 billion wind farm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2814,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-402752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2814"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}