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Three Gorges shiplock not up to speed
Improving navigation on the Yangtze was a chief justification for going ahead with the Three Gorges project, but so far the dam’s shiplock has proved to be a bottleneck and delays have become routine.
Three Gorges villagers in international appeal
Human Rights in China has received an urgent appeal from 650 Three Gorges migrants who say their leader is at imminent risk of detention because of his activism on their behalf.
China wages war on opium in the Three Gorges area
As police try to crack down an opium-poppy growing in the heart of the Three Gorges reservoir area, local officials draw links between the illicit cash crop and the economic turmoil in the region caused by dam-related resettlement.
Reservoir water level lowered for flood season
The Three Gorges reservoir is being lowered for the summer flood
season, with the water level going down four metres this month to 135
metres, an official project publication reports.
Water quality ‘worrisome’ in Three Gorges area
Citing ‘worrisome’ levels of industrial pollution, China’s state environmental agency has acknowledged that pollution-control efforts in the Three Gorges reservoir area have not gone as well as planned, China Daily reports.
Zhang Guangdou speaks his mind on Three Gorges
Renowned water engineer Zhang Guangdou, a key figure in China’s dam-building program of the past 50 years, including the Three Gorges project, has openly called the quality of construction work on the Three Gorges dam "far from excellent" and "not first-class."
Journalist Dai Qing interviews Guo Laixi, an eminent geographer who took part in the Chinese feasibility study for the Three Gorges dam but became so alarmed about the project’s potential impacts that he refused to sign the study team’s final report.
‘All we want is for the policies of the central government to be enforced, so that we can be resettled properly and start rebuilding our lives,’ migrants write in a petition recently obtained by Three Gorges Probe.
(June 19, 2008) In response to many press inquiries about China’s deadly May 12, 2008 earthquake, China’s Fan Xiao, chief engineer of the Regional Geology Investigation Team of the Sichuan Geology and Mineral Bureau, answers the following questions.
Expert who refused to sign off on Three Gorges
Gaoyang migrants appeal once again to Beijing
Huge amount of misused Three Gorges resettlement funds recovered
All the 63.85 million yuan (7.98 million U.S. dollars) of misused resettlement funds in central China’s Hubei province has been recovered, said an official from the supervision bureau of the Three Gorges Project Sunday at a working conference.
Three Gorges project generates 49.2b kWh
The Three Gorges Project, the world’s largest hydropower project, generated 49.2 billion kilowatt-hours(kwh) of electricity in 2006.
Three Gorges official says relocated residents will exceed 1.2 million
A Three Gorges Project official has admitted that the actual number of people needing to be relocated from their homes for the construction of the Three Gorges dam will exceed 1.2 million.
Fan Xiao addresses dam concerns
Chinese Vice Premier says life must be improved for people relocated from Three Gorges areas
Chinese Vice Premier Zeng Peiyan has instructed local authorities to improve the living conditions of the people relocated to make way for the gigantic Three Gorges Project.
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