(December 1, 2008) On November 29, a major landslide hit Wu Gorge, one of the deepest canyons upstream of the Three Gorges dam on the Yangtze River, Xinhua reported on December 1.
FEATURE: Three Gorges dam authority suspends reservoir filling
(November 27, 2008) Mountains of floating garbage, geological problems, and stranded cargo ships prompted China’s Three Gorges dam authority to suspend filling the dam’s reservoir to its final height last month, according to the popular magazine South Weekend (Nanfang Zhoumo).
Earthquake jolts Three Gorges region
(November 23, 2008) An earthquake measuring 4.1 on the Richter scale jolted Zigui County in central China’s Hubei Province at 4:01 p.m. Saturday, the National Seismic Network reported.
Chinese dam planner says upper Mekong dam impacts “limited”
(October 29, 2008) Last month in Vientiane, a spokesman for one of China’s largest dam planning agencies1 assured the Mekong River Commission (which includes the four lower Mekong countries of Lao PDR, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam) that dam-building on the upper Mekong would have only “limited impact” downstream.
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.
Major flooding risk could span decades after Chinese earthquake
(September 7, 2008) Up to 20 million people, thousands of whom are already displaced from their homes following the devastating Chinese earthquake, are at increased risk from flooding and major power shortages in the massive Sichuan Basin over the next few decades and possibly centuries.
The Yangtze River Tow Men
(September 4, 2008) An English merchant by the name of A. J. Little who spent a month and a half travelling by wooden sailing boat in the Three Gorges from Hankou to Chongqing in the spring of 1883 recorded this description in his book “Sailing the Three Gorges:”
The Other Great Wall
Forget the Olympics. This is China’s most spectacular extravaganza.
Chinese environmentalists and scholars appeal for dam safety assessments in geologically unstable south-west China
(July 8, 2008) Experts and environmental activists have submitted a petition asking the Chinese government to reassess the safety of large-scale dam projects and make their findings public.
Chinese geology experts question South-North Water Diversion Scheme’s viability
(August 31, 2007) Officially it’s the answer to northern China’s water crisis but senior Chinese geologists and experts are not confident that the central government’s plans for diverting water from the upper Yangtze into the parched Yellow River valley is worth the extraordinary risk and cost.
Chapter 11
Sedimentation Analysis
Chapter 10
Dam Safety Analysis
Chapter 2
What Dam Builders Don’t Want You to Know: A Summary
Chapter 1
Damming the Three Gorges: 1920 – 1993
PRESS RELEASE Ethnic minorities in southwestern China threatened by hydro development, group tells World Heritage Forum in Quebec
(July 8, 2008) In a letter obtained by Probe International and submitted to the World Heritage Committee meeting in Quebec City this week, a group of Lisu minority youth said that hydropower development along the Nu River would destroy one of the world’s most culturally and biologically diverse regions.
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