Richmond, Va (AP) – Virginia’s economic development agency says it has at least 1,700 emails and documents pertaining to talks about the possibility of a Ford Motor Company battery plant landing at a Danville-area megasite.

However, it will not release any of them under the state’s public records law.

The Associated Press sought the records last month after Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin disclosed that he intervened in an apparent effort by Virginia to land the project.

Youngkin objected to the role of a Chinese company in the joint venture.

The Virginia Economic Development Partnership said this week that it had located the emails and documents that matched A-P’s request but would not be sharing any of them.