cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/33259385
Energy Secretary Ed Miliband will introduce an amendment to legislation to ensure there is no slavery in GB Energy’s supply chains.
It comes after ministers rejected an amendment to a bill last month that would have prevented that state-owned GB Energy spending money on solar panels where supply chains had “credible evidence of modern slavery”.
The production of solar panels in China’s Xinjiang region has been linked to the alleged exploitation of Uyghur Muslims.
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A government source told the BBC since then “there has been an acknowledgement of the argument that GB Energy should be an industry leader”.
There has already been praise from the international community for the U-turn. Fatih Birol, the head of the International Energy Agency, told the BBC: “I really salute the UK government’s decision.”
He said that the materials for green technology are important but “should really be produced in a socially and environmentally acceptable way”.
Labour MPs who have been calling for the change are seeing it as a victory.
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Show us that evidence then.
This is only a US propaganda talking point. Uyghurs aren’t repressedy neither is there a genocide against them. They can live their culture and language. What China is doing is using draconic measure to combat terrorism and separatism in Xinjiang. Fighting seperatism and terrorism isn’t slave labour or genocide.
@RedPandaRaider@feddit.org
Your statement is outright false.
There is much evidence of genocide by the Chinese Communist Party in Xinjiang (as well as Tibet and with other minorities in China). You are parroting CCP propaganda.
Prove it then.
Your statement is false until proven. It’s coming straight from American three letter agencies.