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Comment on Things you may not know about the history of the Three Gorges Dam Project by Probe International

Probe International — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 19:30:35 +0000

Hi Mike,
Thank you for your comment. Premier Li Peng played an enormous role in pushing the Three Gorges Dam. You may be interested in a few of our publications that describe it: the first chapter of our book Damming the Three Gorges: What Dam Builders Don’t Want You To Know, and Chapters 2, 3, 7, and 10 of Yangtze!Yangtze! by Dai Qing.

Comment on Things you may not know about the history of the Three Gorges Dam Project by Mike Check

Mike Check — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 03:47:00 +0000

Impressive article, impressive in its detail, breadth, depth and connections. It’s also impressive for its greatest ommission, Li Peng. The adopted son of Zhou Enlai, Li Peng was a hydro-engineer and the Premier of China during the 80s and 90s when most of the political maeuvering for this damn happened. Everybody knows those facts and connections though and leaving him out is like not mentioning the elephant in the room, yeah the elephant is obvious, but shouldn’t it still be mentioned?

Comment on China’s power growth slows by Bob K

Bob K — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 01:36:53 +0000

All at Probe should be happy about Prime Minister Harper’s success in securing agreements with China pertaining to resources. One area which you will be pleased about – maybe – is an in principle agreement to supply China with uranium for its reactors. This will take a load off of hydroelectic, right? But, if you study the technology as I have, you will find that there are consequences far worse. Even if, they design their plants to be seimic resisiting, the question is – what to do with spent nuclear waste? Do as they do in the U.S. by making weapons that combine U238 (a radioactive isotope with a 1/2 life of 4 billion years) and enhance it with titanium to make war-heads that will penetrate bunkers buried deep in the earth’s crust, or through steel armour plate and then detonates at thousands of degrees C that turns victims into “crispy critters” as our NATO buddies call them? If we are all happy with such an outcome – continue bashing hydroelectric. The nuclear warheads used in Iraq and Afghanistan and the Balkans has had a rather unpredicable backlash on our vets – post traumatic stress order (PTSD) – since the nanosized particles get into the brain cells destroy the DNA and the cells themselves, cause brain and kidney cancers and assorted mental disorders such as depression and suicide.

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Comment on Things you may not know about the history of the Three Gorges Dam Project by What You Might Not Know About the Three Gorges Project - China Digital Times (CDT)

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:20:05 +0000

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Air pollution harder to deny in cyber China | Probe International — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:43:36 +0000

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Air pollution harder to deny in cyber China | Probe International — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:43:31 +0000

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