Ed Miliband Approves Solar Plant Despite Alleged Exposure to Uyghur Forced Labour

Ed Miliband has green lighted a solar farm project in England despite alleged risks of Uyghur forced labour. The Mallard Pass Solar Project was one of the three projects that were approved on Friday by Mr. Miliband, the new secretary of state for energy security and net zero. The permission came days after local MP Alicia Kearns, who chaired the Foreign Affairs Committee until Parliament dissolved on May 30, called on Mr. Miliband to block the project. In a letter the net zero secretary, Ms. Kearns said the project’s primary developer, Canadian Solar, shouldn’t be allowed to build nationally significant infrastructure in the UK because of its “widespread and well documented supply chain links to Uyghur forced labour.”...