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Hundreds of people are out of work after CS Wind, which moved to Windsor with great fanfare and $10 million in incentives, shut down its local factory.

The lights were out, the doors were locked and the building looked deserted Thursday at the company’s Canadian headquarters at 9355 Anchor Dr.

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“There’s no one working there,” Fred MacPherson, business manager for Ironworkers Local 721, said from Toronto. “We used to have 300 people working there and now there’s none.”

Representatives of CS Wind, a South Korean wind turbine producer, could not be reached for comment this week.

Because the new government has stopped all wind projects that were on the shelf

Only a couple of people were in the Windsor factory on Thursday, including a security guard keeping watch over the empty hallways, abandoned loading docks and idle equipment.

One of them said there has not been production at the site in many months, and the company was shipping its equipment to other facilities overseas.