Kamala Harris boosted solar firm linked to Chinese slave labor with nearly $2B in handouts to set up US plant
Story by Josh Christenson • 16h
Kamala Harris boosted solar firm linked to Chinese slave labor with nearly $2B in handouts to set up Georgia plant
The Biden-Harris administration helped out a South Korean solar company whose supply chain is tied to Chinese slave labor, a list of federally sanctioned entities shows, handing out nearly $2 billion to the firm to expand its presence in Georgia.
Vice President Kamala Harris, 59, visited Hanwha Qcells’ manufacturing plant in Dalton, Ga., in April 2023, touting how the administration’s tax credits would expand the facility and help Hanwha build another one in nearby Cartersville to produce millions of panels as part of “the largest investment in solar energy in our nation’s history.”
But the Seoul-based company is using polysilicon, a key component in manufacturing solar panels, from at least two suppliers that have been banned by the Department of Homeland Security because of their dependence on the forced labor of Uyghur Muslims in China’s Xinjiang province, Bloomberg reported in July.
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