(May 11, 2006) Is the spit and comb guy from Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 using corruption as a smoke screen to stall debt relief?
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China to boost development of wind power
(May 11, 2006) China will give a major boost to the development of wind power to benefit 23 million people living in hinterland areas or on the coastal islands by 2010.
Power transmission from China’s west to east
(May 10, 2006) China will speed up the development of electric power resources in the west region to prepare for a huge west-to-east electricity transmission project.
Big hydro in the red: the drive for DE-friendly reform in China
(May 10, 2006) Centralized planning has delivered a series of large, centralized hydro electric energy projects to China, many of which have proved to be a serious mismatch to the power problems they were meant to solve. Here, Grainne Ryder argues that consumer-oriented markets ought to guide investment decisions in the future, and that these would aid decentralized energy projects.
Global study blasts ills of hydro dams
"Development critics find report too hopeful." Article quotes Grainne Ryder.
Large hydropower plant to be build in Yunnan
(May 8, 2006) China is speeding up the preparation for its second largest hydro power plant in southwest China’s Yunnan Provinces along the Lancang River.
Largest water diversion plan to kick off in 2002
(May 7, 2006) Construction of China’s largest water diversion project expected to begin next year, channeling water from the Yangtze River for thirsty people and scorched lands to the north.
Graft found in China’s power monopoly
(May 7, 2006) Investigators have uncovered a web of corruption within China’s power monopoly.
World Bank’s war on corruption
(March 7, 2006) "Corruption is the biggest threat to democracy since communism," says World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz, who plans to make reducing graft in the countries where the bank does business a priority.
Saatchi hired to help Kenya’s ‘war on corruption’
(March 7, 2006) The Kenyan government has hired the Saatchi and Saatchi advertising agency to handle its nationwide anti-corruption campaign.
Water diversion project bill sees 80% rise
(May 4, 2006) Officials in charge of China’s massive south-north water diversion scheme have had to revise the project’s first phase budget up by around 80 percent.
Three Gorges revisited
(May 3, 2006) Sichuan geologist Fan Xiao travels to the Three Gorges reservoir area, and reports on aspects of the project that continue to trouble Chinese experts.
Canadian power company gets failing grade from Belizeans
(May 2, 2006) In its report card released today, the Belize Institute of Environmental Law and Policy gave
Canadian power giant, Fortis, a failing grade.
Now there’s only one place to go for environmental-accident info
(May 2, 2006) China’s General Administration of the Environment has issued a notice declaring that it alone will make public environmentally damaging accidents and related information.
No political motive in Lavalin case: Chandy
(March 2, 2006) Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy has denied a charge that the UDF government had referred the controversial SNC-Lavalin-Kerala State Electricity Board deal to the CBI to leverage political mileage in the coming assembly polls.
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