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Texas bans secretive Chinese billionaire who spent $110m quietly buying-up land from setting up 15,000 acre wind farm amid fears turbines could be fitted with spying equipment or used by Chinese government to cripple energy grid
2021-08-12
  • Sun Guangxin, a Chinese real estate tycoon, has since 2016 spent an estimated $110 million buying up land in Val Verde County in Texas

  • Worth an estimated $2.1 billion, according to Forbes, Sun has bought 140,000 acres of Texan land near the U.S.-Mexico border, by Laughlin air force base

  • Sun has set aside 15,000 acres to build a wind farm which would feed into Texas' power grid

  • His actions have raised eyebrows, given his close ties to Communist party officials in Urumqi - home to the persecuted Uighur minority

  • It has also triggered claims Sun could equip the turbines with spying equipment, or even let China hold Texas's power grid to ransom

  • Environmentalists were concerned about the impact of a wind farm on the Devils River ecosystem, 'considered one of the last wild and pristine rivers in Texas'

  • On June 7 Governor Greg Abbott signed into law the Lone Star Infrastructure Protection Act

  • The bill is designed to stop business entities associated with 'hostile nations' from accessing the Texas grid and other pieces of 'critical infrastructure'
Posted by:Skidmark

#4  Likely to be soon overturned by a liberal federal judge. I'll give it 30 days.
Posted by: Besoeker   2021-08-12 18:22  

#3  So Texas doesn't trust their own democrats, feeling they'll happily grow dependent upon this power instead of building and upgrading existent power thus putting Texas future in Chinese hands? Well don't let them connect to the grid or pass a law saying Texa power must come 80% from non-wind sources.
Posted by: ruprecht   2021-08-12 17:41  

#2  "We are from Cohnhore" Monty Python sketch you can't find online anymore.
Posted by: M. Murcek    2021-08-12 10:18  

#1  

Talk about a contradiction in terms. "Communist Billionaire".

National Infrastructure / Power Grid and etc. should limited to USA OWNED, LOCATED & CONTROLLED ONLY COMPANIES. Simply to avoid a conflict of interest and loyalty issues.


Posted by: NN2N1   2021-08-12 07:17  

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