Posted on 12/30/2020 6:47:32 PM PST by SeekAndFind
WASHINGTON—A proposed wind farm project in West Texas has become a potential national security issue due to its Chinese owner who has ties to the communist regime in Beijing and the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), experts say.
A Chinese-owned company called GH America Investment Group since 2015 bought 130,000 acres of land—an area the size of Tulsa, Oklahoma—in Val Verde County, Texas. The man behind the investment firm is Sun Guangxin, a businessman from Xinjiang, China, who is described as a “carpetbagger” by Chinese media with strong ties to the communist regime, The Epoch Times previously has reported.
Sun, a former PLA officer, is currently the richest person in the western Xinjiang region, with a net worth of $1.9 billion, according to Forbes. He was also the vice chairman of the Xinjiang Provincial Youth Federation.
Sun’s investment company acquired land to build wind farms, with a proposal to install 50 to 130 wind turbines.
A CFIUS panel chaired by the Treasury Department reviewed the acquisition and found that the wind farm didn’t pose a national security threat. However, an expert familiar with the project in Texas told The Epoch Times that there are a number of potential national security concerns about the Chinese control over the land.
The first concern is that the wind farm will be generating electricity, hence, it involves critical infrastructure and poses a risk to the Texas electric grid. Potential cyberattacks on the electrical grid could disrupt power utility operations, resulting in large-scale power outages.
A power grid attack that happened in March 2019 in the Western United States, for example, disrupted California, Utah, and Wyoming electrical utility systems for several hours. The U.S. Department of Energy found that “electric utilities throughout the United States have seen a steady rise in cyber and physical security-related events
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50 to 130 turbines on 130,000 acres? I can do that math - one every two miles. Must be a lot of canyons and not much of a national security risk. I wonder if he will let me lease it for deer hunting?
Joe Xiden does not see a problem.
That headline is over the top, even for what has been going on since the election.
“50 to 130 turbines on 130,000 acres?”
That just let’s them in the door. It’s what else they’ll slip in there that bothers me.
A BIDEN WIN WOULD BE AN AWARD TO CHINA FOR INVADING US USING COVID 19
Every time an American looked at an item for where it was made in it came from China. Now China’s reliance making everything was being threatened by a change in leadership in America which was a major consumer of those products. When Americans hailed their leaders decision to make many of them in their country US. Their politburo worried.
Worse yet opponents to the Chinese regime in power had its citizens protesting its policies , as in Hong Kong, since that change in American leadership wave the American flag and present Trump’s name when doing so. All of which presented those in power the need to destroy that leader Donald Trump.
Would a runaway plague created by a nation which could threaten populations of an enemy cause them to react by demanding extreme restriction of movement by its population to prevent its spread ? Thus wind up fragmenting its economy and create defeat for that leader’s upcoming election.
Americans better WISE UP/
Key swamp demons were making fortunes when they allowed US companies in a number of industries including pharma, computer; and electrical as well metal fabrication components even bicycles relocate their factories in China . To the point where China was our sole supplier. The money the CCP has now comes from US .If we play our Chinese checkers right we can really turn things around for the better not only here but in China as well.Check out this recent posting in Free Republic.com which the MSM and social venues will spike; http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3890312/posts. will be stopped by Biden and hailed by Walmart http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3920123/posts
oooooh sh1t!!!
It’s not like Texas grid can disconnect from the USA grid and become an island if required and it is all interconnected. CCP wouldn’t do anything out of the ordinary if they had a direct connection to the power grid./<< HUGE SARC TAG goes here.
PS: 30+ years instrumentation/controls in a petrochem facility with multiple CoGen units.
Zhou Bai Ding.
Yes there is a problem.
No sane country allows non-citizens to own real estate.
I am not aware of 1 wind farm in US history that has NOT ended up being a scam.
Just a taste of the Chinese ownership of major and critical US infrastructure to come with the Ascension of the HarrisXiden Regime to Supremacy for Life.
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