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Category Archives: Yangtze Power
Big, complicated, hard to manage
(September 1, 2012) The staggering costs of China’s Three Gorges Dam—the displacement of 1.7 million and counting, and a price tag six-times the original estimate—are well known. But the enormous project’s complicated operational demands are largely unknown, and they promise to get more vexing as more dams are built upstream. Power magazine looks at the complexities of delivering power from such large-scale hydropower plants trans-region, trans-province, and trans-basin and the pressing need for peak regulation, frequency regulation, and emergency reserves for hydropower plants. Continue reading
Dam madness
(July 4, 2012) As the fierce struggle between China’s hydropower industry and environmental conservationists rages anew, what has become clear in the meanwhile: the country’s rivers cannot sustain the current pace of development. Continue reading
Dam fever threatens viability of Three Gorges Dam
(June 6, 2012) Reporter Shi Jiangtao sounds the alarm on China’s dam-building frenzy along the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, revisiting the findings of the 2011 Probe International study, “A Mighty River Runs Dry,” by geologist Fan Xiao. Continue reading
Posted in Beijing Water, China's Dams, Chinese Environmentalists, Patricia Adams, Probe International in the News, Sediment, South-North Water Diversion Project, Three Gorges Probe, Yangtze Drought and Pollution, Yangtze Power
Tagged China's water crisis, Fan Xiao, hydropower, Patricia Adams, Probe International, Three Gorges Dam, unchecked hydropower development, Yangtze drought
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A new threat to safety along the Yangtze River
(May 11, 2012) Chinese hydropower magnates plan to build 25 new dam reservoirs on the Yangtze’s upper reaches despite warnings of seismic risks from dam-building overload in the area, and in spite of recent evacuation efforts due to the threat of geological disaster at Three Gorges. Continue reading
Posted in China's Dams, Dams and Earthquakes, Probe International in the News, RIS, Sediment, Three Gorges Probe, Yangtze Drought and Pollution, Yangtze Floods and Drought, Yangtze Power
Tagged China's Dams, geological disasters, Jinsha River, reservoir-induced seismicity, RIS, safety fears, seismically active areas, Yangtze River
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