Tag Archives: Yunnan

On alert: RIS risk amid rash of earthquakes in China’s Sichuan-Yunnan region

Posted on March 22, 2013 by

(March 22, 2013) A new report, exclusive to Probe International, calls for urgent monitoring of China’s large dams in areas prone to seismic hazard. These areas may be at increased risk from dam reservoir-induced seismicity (RIS). Scientists have observed that reservoir impoundment may not only increase the risk of strong earthquakes, particularly in areas already vulnerable to high-intensity seismic activity, but may represent a more pronounced risk in the first few years after a dam is filled. Continue reading →

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Geology expert Yang Yong on the challenges facing China’s most controversial dam projects

Posted on January 5, 2012 by

(January 5, 2012) Yang Yong on the future of river management in China and the issues currently facing the country’s more controversial dam projects. Continue reading →

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Weibo Watch: Issue 5

Posted on September 15, 2011 by

(September 15, 2011) In this installment of Weibo Watch: hundreds of rivers and dams dry up, Poyang Lake continues to shrink, Beijing Zoo’s new amusement park draws an angry response, and complaints about mining in Tibetan culture’s holy mountains fall on deaf ears. Continue reading →

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Finding the true cost of China’s west-east hydro

Posted on May 24, 2006 by

Probe International Special Report: Grainne Ryder argues that China’s new electricity regulator should initiate a full-cost review of state dam-building in earthquake-prone Yunnan province. Continue reading →

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