(April 20, 2001) … Although China has stepped up efforts to clean up its rivers and crack down on plants that pose obvious environmental safety risks, progress has stalled due to a lack of funds and professional personnel.
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SEPA releases new measure on public participation in EIA process
(April 20, 2001) The State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA), China’s top environmental body, has released a tentative measure on public involvement in the nation’s Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) process.
Three Gorges dam threatens vast fishery
(April 20, 2001) China’s Three Gorges dam isn’t fully operational yet, but it is already threatening one of the world’s biggest fisheries in the East China Sea. A drop in the amount of fresh water and sediment reaching the sea is to blame.
Three Gorges migrants protest detentions, unfair treatment
(April 20, 2001) Following the arrests of four Three Gorges migrants last month, another five have risked their lives submitting a letter to China’s Communist Party leaders, in which they protest unfair treatment and appeal for justice.
China’s rivers: Frontlines for chemical wastes
… Although China has stepped up efforts to clean up its rivers and crack down on plants that pose obvious environmental safety risks, progress has stalled due to a lack of funds and professional personnel.
PRESS RELEASE: Imminent trial of Three Gorges dam protesters
Human Rights Watch and Probe International appeal for the release of farmers arrested for trying to petition Chinese authorities to end abuses linked to the Three Gorges dam project.
Myanmar Generates More Electricity in 2000
(April 19, 2001) Burma to build five more hydropower dams.
Belize Dam
(April 17, 2001) The world’s largest parrot is in the middle of a controversy in a small Central American country.
Vietnam to build seven new electric power plants
(April 11, 2001) Work on the construction of seven new electric power plants with a combined capacity of 2,230 MW reported to start in the immediate future to early next year.
Lao villagers deserve compensation
It was hailed as a model project, but the Theun-Hinboun dam in Laos has harmed the livelihoods of thousands of villagers, writes Grainne Ryder.
Indonesia clashes with IMF over plan to fire top bankers
(April 9, 2001) Indonesia insists on a key change to the central bank law allowing it to fire the entire board, setting itself on a possible collision course with an already frustrated International Monetary Fund.
Dammed if she doesn’t
(April 7, 2001) Dai Qing lives for one thing: to stop China’s Three Gorges dam being built across the Yangtze river. Why? She says it will displace 1.5 million people and cause devastating environmental damage.
Neglect it at your own peril!
(April 5, 2001) It is too easy to dismiss the almost total loss of the Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserve, now acknowledged by government, as an unfortunate accident.
Limestone caverns may drain Chalillo reservoir
(April 5, 2001) The prospect of undetected underground limestone caverns diverting water from the proposed Chalillo dam has come to light by one of Belize’s most experience geologists.
Editorial
(April 5, 2001) Geologist Charles Wright’s work suggests that if the mostly granite area of mountain country is undermined by limestone, it would be sheer folly to proceed with a large dam at Chalillo.
The late Charles Wright, who chose to live in Punta Gorda for much of his life, was a world renowned geologist and consultant. He was the principal architect of the book Land Use Survey in Belize, a valuable resource book now out of print.
Patricia Adams
Dai Qing
Fan Xiao
Lawrence Solomon
Mu Lan
Probe International
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Probe Media
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