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Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2011 | 2:36 p.m.
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- Chinese energy company seeks more county land for ‘eco-city’ (9-19-2011)
- $6 billion news escapes some Laughlin residents, but not for long (7-6-2011)
- County backs proposed solar energy farm near Laughlin (7-5-2011)
- Solar project could be start of diversified economy (6-30-11)
- Deadlines may shelve renewable energy projects (6-25-2011)
- GOP fights funding for vital Nevada renewable projects (3-3-2011)
- Reid: Solar thermal project near Tonopah to create more than 500 new jobs in Nevada (12-20-2010)
- NV Energy agrees to purchase Crescent Dunes solar power (12-22-2009)
- The cost of building a solar powered economy (8-16-2009)
- Interior bets big on Western solar energy (7-3-2009)
- Obama, Reid tour Nellis solar facility (5-27-2009)
- Solar developers shoot to beat buzzer for cash (3-22-2009)
The Clark County Commission directed staff today to consider a Chinese energy company's offer to purchase another 3,600 acres of county land for a massive solar energy plant and solar-cell factory near Laughlin.
ENN Mojave Energy Corp. now wants all 9,000 acres of available county land about 12 miles south of Laughlin, not 5,400 acres as first reported in June.
Former U.S. Sen. Richard Bryan, representing ENN, said an agreement with the county could be complete as soon as November. At that point, negotiations for a purchase-power agreement — between a power seller and potential buyer — would begin.
As soon as the agreement is struck, ENN will begin construction. If an agreement isn't reached, Bryan said, the land would revert back to Clark County.
When ENN's plans were announced, the company said the development would create 2,000 long-term manufacturing jobs paying on average $72,000 a year. The total construction cost for the solar-cell plant, industrial park and solar-energy farm was projected to be in the range of $4 billion to $6 billion.
Officials hoped construction would begin on the solar-cell plant late this year or in early 2012, with solar cells being produced by March 2013 and the first phase of the solar farm operating by March 2014.
The company's representatives have told Commissioner Steve Sisolak, whose district includes Laughlin, the addition of 3,600 acres would be used to build an "eco-city" at the site. The goal is a self-sustaining city with renewable energy generation and manufacturing as the primary source of employment for its residents.
"They have something like it near Beijing," Sisolak said.
Funny that the Chinese can do this yet no American firm can. Truly sad the manufacturing base we have lost in this country and it will be our demise!
sounds great except the Chinese company owner part.
In most of the world you can not own land if you are not a citizen of that country but we have allowed our land to be sold from beneath our feet for the price of a beer and a hotdog. Once sold we can never get it back. Why are we not looking to lease property to the Chinese with job creation and tax minimums attached?
Sound greats! but why do we have to sale this land to Chinese company? Most of these companies are backing up by the Gorvernment, be CAREFULL and see a bigger picture. Chinese goverment stole and steals our technolgoy. They poison our kids with toys, bad merchandise and foods. They wanted to buy our land, think twice!!! They are looking at AREA 51 and Nelis airforce base (technology and secret information). They came to my country and exported tons of bad products and poison foods, they bought or rent our lands in some senitive areas where could be a main entrance to invade my country when the time comes. Goverment, Clark county, Nevadan please be carefull, they may not go after the land, they may look for something else better than 9000 acres of land, TECHNOLOGY AND SECRET INFORMATON. Everybody knows Chinese government is hungry for technolgoy to build weapons, but they don't want to use the brain, they just want to steal....sorry to say, but it happend in my country. I am Chinese Vietnamese and now US citizen. I was not discriminate against them. I am telling the truth.
If you think about it we are getting a good end of this. We are not sending the jobs to China, we are bringing Chinese money back into the United States and into Nevada. 2000 GOOD PAYING jobs once the plant is complete.
This is how we are getting some of our money and jobs back that we have sent to China for the last 20 years. They are building a product that we want and need.
9000 acres that we will now collect property tax on that has been making us nothing.
Lots of upsides to this deal if you look at it right.
So basically your kids will work for Chinese businessmen... If they are lucky.
I would not sell the land. I would lease it to the Chinese or no deal. I don't need the Chinese owning our land. Do they let us make deals like this in China? Ask Sleaze Harry.
I wouldn't do this! The Chinese have been buying up strategic sites all over the US. All by itself this may not be a red light but in combination with all the others it becomes a pattern of control.
They now control the largest port on the West coast, the port of Los Angeles and the only strategic passage between the eastern and western hemisphere, the Panama Canal.
Add those to their other acquisitions, their trade practices, their military build up, their admitted efforts to control the energy markets, their recent signed alliances with Hugo Chavez and several middle eastern countries and it is obvious that this could be a dangerous move.
If nothing else, why would the county want to cede control of potentially strategic interests to a non-allied foreign power? If this doesn't set off danger bells, I don't know what will. Potential revenues should not blind us to the bigger picture.
Don't do it.
Everyone on the right jumps on the fact that a green energy policy is bad for the U.S. and its a failed strategy for this country to invest in a green energy future!
Well guess who is investing in that future in a big way? Not us!! China!
Who is buying up 9000 acres of prime solar land? Not us!! China!
Who may be building a Hi-Speed rail system here in the future powered by their solar farm? Umm that would also be "not us"!
The Chinese are not planning to follow right wing energy policy and get drilling permits to look for oil there as our party to right thinks the U.S. should be doing!! They will be selling us clean electric power at a profit to be consumed by those same backwards thinking people to cool their houses and businesses. Irony doesn't get any better!
If you think your country is being taken over by the chinese your wrong! Your giving it away by trying to go back to being a 3rd world country rather than investing in your own future! The problem we have in this country is an 1800's mentality about the role of government and the future. The U.S. started as a 3rd world country and clawed its way up to have the best standard of living in the world. We didn't do this by continuing policies to remain a 3rd world country. We did it by creating social policies that created a middle class and investing in our future in infrastructure,education,healthcare and retirement systems both public and private. What future are we investing in now? Here is a clue... look south!
We are doing everything we can to become the next great 3rd world country! Dismantling the social policies and investment structure that made us #1. If we are so desperate to be a 3rd world country again where everyone just fends for themselves and lives in poverty then I suggest you try it out by moving to a 3rd world country and working there for a year to see just how good that works and why they have not advanced much against the last 250 years of U.S prosperity! Is that really where we want to go back to?
Now excuse me while I get ready to catch my Chinese built Hi-speed train powered by the chinese solar power plant to get me to my job because the shale oil drilling in this country makes gas 5 dollars a gallon and roads are falling apart!
Theres this saying:
When all you have is oil.. everything looks like an internal combustion engine!
will they also obtain their visas (green cards) via a friendly handshake, unlike many european investors immigration are giving a hard time to and refusing their investment.
hey vegaslee, you are right on. nice to know there are people still out there who think for themsevles and with common sense.
Sounds great. I'm sure our "leaders," will find some way to bungle it though, or am I just being cynical?
Uh, haven't thousands of Chinese people protested the last few months because the solar plants now located in China are releasing toxic fumes into their environment and water supply?!
Click on any of these articles:
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/...
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/s...
And now we are trusting their business model to come to the States?!