By Kevin Killough, l’ÉtatKevin@CowboyStateDaily. com Energy Reporter
Another company with close ties to China made money from the Biden administration’s Dement of Energy from its green energy campaign.
This is the third known incident in which the DOE has given a China-related company or a generation of support that ended up in Chinese hands. And it disappointed Wyoming Sen. John Barrasso.
Red energy projects
The Washington Free Beacon reported this month that carbon recycling company LanzaTech has won more than $10 million in grants from Biden’s management since April 2021 for green energy projects.
The company is related to a blank energy investment subsidiary of Sinopec Group, a Chinese state-owned oil conglomerate.
Bo Ren, a leading executive at Sinopec and a board member of LanzaTech, graduated from a Chinese university and is blacklisted by American industry for stealing secrets from American industry, Free Beacon reports.
According to the company’s website, LanzaTech is developing a carbon recycling generation that converts pollutants into chemical fuels and bacteria. The company opened its third factory in China this year.
Transparent ties
U. S. Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyoming, a senior member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, sought answers from Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm regarding the department’s policy and procedures for granting grants and loans.
In a Dec. 14 letter to Granholm, Barrasso said LanzaTech had “clear ties” to the People’s Republic of China, which are supported by documents filed through the company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
“We are exposed to the threat that the Chinese government will simply interfere or influence our operations at any time,” the LanzaTech files say.
In the letter, Barrasso asks for a review of the policies and procedures of the branch that has as main points the security review procedure for entities that receive taxpayer money, as well as the corrective movements that the branch would take when it fails. It discovers that corporations are connected to “a country of specific interest. “worry. “
Barrasso told the Cowboy State Daily that as of Friday he had gotten no reaction from the DOE.
Persistent issue
This isn’t the first time Biden’s management has funneled taxpayer money to corporations with ties to China.
The Free Beacon reported earlier this month that the DOE had Microvast Holdings, a lithium battery company, with $200 million to build a battery separation facility in Tennessee.
The company’s monetary records show that Microvast operates primarily in China.
The money came from the bipartisan infrastructure bill and was meant to counter China’s global lithium-ion battery supply chain.
Following the Free Beacon report, Barrasso-Wyoming wrote to Granholm requesting a review of the department’s praise policies.
Barrasso never won a reaction to this letter.
Former Energy Secretary Rick Perry, who held the position before Granholm, told Fox News Sunday Morning Futures that his successor is expected to face congressional investigations into Microvast’s funding, which he says will happen in his resignation.
A third incident
In September, Barrasso and Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, sent a letter to Energy Department Inspector General Teri Donaldson following a report that the DEO had illegally shipped $15 million in taxpayer-funded complex battery generation to China.
Engineers working at a government lab in Washington helped design a vanadium redox battery. NPR reported that the batteries are the length of a refrigerator and involve enough force to force a house.
After completing its warehouse in Washington, the company, with permission from the DOE, moved its production operations to China.
“In the interest of our economic and national security, we respectfully request that you take mandatory steps to review this misconduct with an appropriate point of oversight and ask that you report to us on the findings of this review as soon as possible. “said the senators’ letter.
They won a response.
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