(July 25, 2008) The Star Online reports that China’s Three Gorges Corporation has signed an agreement with Sawarak Energy, a state-owned power company, to build the Murum hydro project in Sarawak. Murum is one of 12 projects slated for construction in Sarawak by 2020.
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Three Gorges dam holds lessons for green activists
(January 26, 2000) As we plan to triple our hydropower capacity from 2004 to 2020, it is crucial to decide future dams through a more open and participatory process so as to bring competing interests into consideration,
Three Gorges dam completed
(January 19, 2000) The 185m-high dam of China’s Three Gorges project has been completed after 13 years of construction. This milestone, in time for China’s summer flood season. was marked with a televised ceremony attended by workers and officials.
Shame about that big dam
(December 17, 2001) … According to a report last year produced by the World Commission on Dams, a project of the World Bank, large dams tend to have net negative environmental and social costs, emit large levels of greenhouse gases, have a poor economic return, often fail to provide projected benefits, and are widely marked by corruption and vested interest that skew the initial intention of the project.
China’s Yangtze plans
(December 1, 1999) While attention is focussed on the Three Gorges project, Chinese state media has announced that a further 100 new hydroelectric plants will be built on the upper reaches of the Yangtze river and its tributaries in the coming decades.
PI ANALYSIS: Beijing’s on-again off-again water crisis
(October 3, 2008) Beijing’s water crisis is back in the news after a few months’ hiatus around the Olympic Games.
Pulling the trigger on RTS
(October 3, 2008) The International Commission on Large Dams (ICOLD) has published a new informative bulletin on reservoir triggered seismicity.
Explosives being set to demolish cofferdam protecting Three Gorges Dam
(October 29, 1999) Demolition experts on Thursday were continuing to set explosives that will later this week create a massive explosion to demolish the last cofferdam protecting the just-completed Three Gorges Dam.
Hebei turns on the tap as drought grips Beijing
(September 18, 2008) A water shortage in Beijing is being tackled with an emergency diversion of 300 million cubic meters of water from Hebei Province that started at 10 a.m. on Thursday.
Water Crisis in North China
(October 2, 2008) Beijing’s demand for water is putting pressure on upstream Hebei and Shanxi provinces to tap new supplies. South Wind Window reporter Tian Lei investigates north China’s devastating water crisis.
Hebei Water Resources Bureau announces water transfer to Beijing
(October 2, 2008) The following is a translation of an article that appeared on the Hebei Water Resources Bureau’s website describing the controversial water transfer project that will transport 300 million cubic metres of water from drought-stricken Hebei province to Beijing.
China Three Gorges Project Corporation in talks to buy out rival
(October 2, 2008) China’s Xinhua financial network reported on August 6th that China Three Gorges Project Corporation, the country’s largest hydropower operator, is in talks to buy out rival China Water Investment Corporation, according to a report in the Shanghai Securities News (SSN), which cited an unnamed Three Gorges official.
175m water impoundment on Three Gorges project
(Septermber 10, 2008) Three Gorges Project, for the first time, will carry out an experiment of 175m water impoundment in middle September, which will improve the navigation conditions along Yangtze River and in Three Gorges reservoir area, and increase shipping efficiency of the Project, according to news from Yangtze River Water Resources Commission and China Three Gorges Corporation.
China to raise Three Gorges dam water level
(September 27, 2008) China is to begin raising water levels at the Three Gorges Project on Sunday, the developer of the massive water conservancy project announced on Saturday.
Canada should aid Three Gorges dam victims
(October 1, 2008) As China’s Three Gorges dam nears completion, displaced people are still fighting for fair compensation. Canada, as the dam’s lead international financier, should stand up for the victims.
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