Wind farms are all the rage now. Local pols are falling all over themselves to sign up. Environmentalists and Dems applaud saving ANWR in Alaska for the moose and polar bears and from American oil companies. Farmers and land owners are paid to host these modern-day windmills. They signed up with American companies and pols eagerly anticipated the extra tax revenue to fuel their favorite projects.
But wait - Horizon Wind Energy, a major USA wind farm company has been gobbled up by a foreign firm, Energias de Portugal, S.A. (“EDP”). What looked like a way for the USA to gain “energy independence” from other countries seems to have back-fired.
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Read about it here in a story titled “Energias de Portugal Completes US Horizon Wind Energy Buy”.
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I wonder if local pols and land owners would have signed up so fast for a wind farm if they knew that eventually the wind farm would one day be owned by a foreign company? More important, where are the liberal MSM, environmentalists and most important, the Feds on this one?
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Dan England’s posts can also be found at Getting Elected Blogline and Townhall. Dan’s website is GettingElected.com and he is the author of So You Want to Run for Political Office and Welcome to the Real Corporate World.
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