Stratfor.com’s Global Intelligence Update June 5, 2006 Summary Citing environmental and financial concerns, members of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) petitioned the government to slow work on the Three Gorges […]
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Dam official ‘flees with $930m’
South China Morning Post June 5, 2006 In a fresh example of corruption plaguing the massive Three Gorges Dam project, a senior official suspected of having siphoned off more than one billion […]
Comment: Three Gorges damned
South China Morning Post June 5, 2006 "I have abandoned all hope," wrote a deputy director of the Three Gorges Economic Development Corporation in the suicide note he left behind when he […]
Water conservancy projects needed Gorges project
China Daily June 6, 2006 Water authorities have been urged to take the opportunity of Western China’s much-talked about development to accelerate water conservancy projects in the region. Water authorities should contribute […]
Three Gorges should be delayed, experts warn
South China Morning Post June 6, 2006 A group of 53 senior engineers, water management experts and academics has sent a petition to the top leadership urging a rethink on the progress […]
Three Gorges dam hit by 60 million-dollar graft scam
Agence France Presse June 6, 2006 [NB The US$600 million figure given by AFP in the following article is incorrect. According to the Hong Kong-based Guangzhou Daily, China’s Auditor-General, Li Jinhua, reported […]
New 3 Gorges corruption claim
Power in Asia June 6, 2006 A top executive with the largest Three Gorges dam subcontractor was fired in January for his decision to buy second-hand, dilapidated construction machinery to build the […]
More hydropower stations to Yangtze
China Daily June 6, 2006 CHENGDU: China plans to accelerate the development of water resources on the upper reaches of the Yangtze River as part of the country’s efforts to develop the […]
Listing ruled out for power company
South China Morning Post June 6, 2006 Beijing–The Three Gorges company will not be floated on the stock market because it is beset with economic and technical problems, said Yuan Guolin, retired […]
Environmental, human rights activists target banks
Agence France Presse June 6, 2006 Clients with stock in the financial services giant Morgan Stanley Dean Witter on Thursday filed a shareholder resolution questioning the bank’s approach to human rights and […]
Chinese official sentenced to death for Three Gorges corruption
Agence France Presse June 6, 2006 BEIJING — China has sentenced to death an official who embezzled nearly 1.5 million dollars from the controversial Three Gorges dam project, a court official told […]
China speeds up construction of Three Gorges Dam
Dow Jones International News June 7, 2006 Construction workers will pour 5.4 million cubic meters of cement this year as work on the mammoth Three Gorges dam project accelerates, the state-run Xinhua […]
Irregularities suspected over push for dam
(August 23, 2008) Senators and environmentalists suspect irregularities involving the planned construction of the 120-billion-baht hydro-power dam on the Mekong river being pushed by the Samak Sundaravej administration.
China damned over floods
(August 23, 2008) As Mekong River floodwaters in Laos and Thailand recede, indignation with China for its lack of transparency on upstream dam developments is on the rise. China has recently pursued a friendly policy of economic integration with Southeast Asian neighbors but in relation to Mekong River development it has taken what many see as a covetous and less than neighborly approach.
China’s Three Gorges dam, by the numbers
‘Ultimately the life of this dam is very limited, unless they build other dams to prevent it from silting up,’ said Jennifer Turner, coordinator of the China Environment Forum at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington.
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