inspectors have approved the quality of a reef-explosion operation that has been part of efforts to raise the water level of the Three Gorges reservoir to 156 metres above sea level.
Government denies droughts caused by big dams
Authorities have vehemently denied that continuous drought and shortage of drinking water in southwest China are somehow related to the completion this year of the Three Gorges dam.
Rodent influx raises fear of epidemics
Hordes of rats and mice are moving into new towns and villages built for people displaced by the Three Gorges dam, raising fears of disease epidemics in the resettlement zones.
Work set to start on giant hydropower station
Construction work on the Xiangjiaba hydropower project, which will be China’s third-largest dam, will begin by the end of this year, the Three Gorges Project Corp. has announced.
Three Gorges Project ready to store water 156 meters high
The Three Gorges reservoir is ready to store water to the 156-metre mark, Xinhua reports. The raising of the reservoir is expected to occur this month.
Pollution cost China $80b in 2004: report
‘We’ve been looking forward to this report for a long time,’ says environmental journalist Wang Yongchen. ‘Obviously it shows that the Chinese government is making this problem a priority. Otherwise they wouldn’t have published such a big figure of loss.’
China counts pollution cost
China has announced the first results of a long-term project to quantify the impact of growing pollution on its economy, estimating that environmental damage cost the equivalent of 3 per cent of economic output in 2004.
China Yangtze Power raises on-grid charges
(August 17, 2006) China Yangtze Power Co Ltd, owner of the Three Gorges project, has increased by 38 per cent the price it charges grid companies for electricity.
Opinion, suggestion sought for post-quake rebuilding
(August 16, 2008) A few days ago, the State Overall Planning for the Post-Wenchuan Earthquake Restoration and Reconstruction (Public Opinion Soliciting Draft) started to solicit opinions from home and abroad. An official was interviewed by the press and answered the questions regarding the public opinion solicitation.
Absence of Justice
On November 18, 2002, the government of Dachang Zhen (Great Prosperity Town) in Wushan County, Yangtze River, sent the following dispatch about the wharf and the house belonging to Lu Chengming, who was to be relocated:
In order to accomplish the task of properly resettling those who are being relocated from our village, and to ensure the total success of the clearance from the dam area, a number of county, town and village cadres have repeatedly been to Lu Chengming’s home in Xingsheng Cun (Abundant Village) to persuade him to see reason, but comrade Lu Chengming still refuses to be resettled…
The Wushan Governor’s Murder
On the evening of September 22, 1998, the Governor of Wushan County, Cai Jun, was shot and killed in his own home in an attack by an assailant carrying a gun. His wife and their baby weren’t injured, and nothing was taken.
Cai Jun was of indeterminate age and from Chongqing’s Kaixian County. His educational background and employment career were also relatively unknown to the people of Wushan…
Three Gorges expose wins top prize at film festival
‘Many journalists, international and national, wrote reports and questioned the Three Gorges project. But once it was completed they stopped. I know the population is still suffering from it.’ — filmmaker Jia Zhangke
Three Gorges cleared of rodents before water levels rise
Forty-three tons of rat poison have been laid to clear the Three Gorges reservoir area of rodents before water levels are raised to 156 meters later this month.
Three Gorges sightseers to transfer to buses
Tourist travelling on the Yangtze River to admire the Three Gorges project will have to transfer to buses to get around the dam for the next year while construction work is under way on the shiplock, Xinhua reports.
Three Gorges Project given go-ahead to raise water level to 156 meters
China’s State Council, or cabinet, has authorized the Three Gorges power plant to raise the water level of the reservoir to 156 metres after this year’s flood season.
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