(April 20, 2008) Emergency workers are still trying to rescue almost 200 people from a village that was nearly inundated by a massive landslide near the Three Gorges dam in central China on Saturday, the official Xinhua news agency reports.
Chongqing: A tale of two cities
The Toronto Star highlights Chongqing, the world’s fastest growing metropolis of 32 million at the upper end of the Three Gorges reservoir.
China’s Three Gorges dam: An environmental catastrophe?
(April 8, 2008) Fan Xiao, a geologist at the Bureau of Geological Exploration and Exploitation of Mineral Resources in Sichuan province, is quoted saying recent landslides in the Three Gorges area are directly linked to filling the reservoir. Water first seeps into the loose soil at the base of the area’s rocky cliffs, destabilizing the land and making it prone to slides.
Voters strike blow against corruption
(April 7, 2008) In a country where corruption is a way of life, the election result is a breathe of fresh air.
China wrung dry of water for thirsty Olympics
(April 2, 2008) China is planning to divert billions of gallons of water hundreds of miles from drought-stricken regions to feed Olympic development in the capital Beijing.
The Impact of Environmental Justice Advocacy in China
(March 26, 2008) Justice and Legal Reform in China Conference
China’s Three Gorges Dam: An Environmental Catastrophe?
(March 25, 2008) Even the Chinese government suspects the massive dam may cause significant environmental damage.
THREE GORGES ORAL HISTORY SERIES: Absence of Justice: Lu Chengming’s Struggle for Compensation
(March 18, 2008) 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.
China’s environmental regulator urges crackdown on Three Gorges polluters
(March 12, 2008) China’s State Environmental Protection Agency has urged citizens and corporations to take legal action if threatened by water pollution in the Three Gorges dam area.
British insurance broker awarded Three Gorges contract
(March 11, 2008) A London-based insurance broker, Willis Group Holdings, has been awarded a two-year contract as the insurance consultant for the Three Gorges project, according to Joy Shaw, correspondent for MarketWatch in Shanghai.
Fragile Three Gorges: Caijing magazine reports
(February 20, 2008) Chief engineer of the Three Gorges Reservoir Area Disaster Control Headquarters says the number of landslides and collapses in the dam’s reservoir area have nearly doubled between 2001 and 2003, reports Caijing magazine.
Three Gorges transmission lines down amid power shortages
(February 20, 2008) Heavy snowstorms felled three power transmission towers along a majorline of the Three Gorges dam, disrupting a link in central China’s transmission system, Xinhua news agency reported last month.
Up the Yangtze gets rave review from Dai Qing
(February 14, 2008) Probe International Fellow Dai Qing lauds Canadian documentary Up the Yangtze for revealing the human cost of the Three Gorges dam.
Probe International asks Canadian government to provide legal aid to Three Gorges dam victims
(February 13, 2008) Probe International is urging the Canadian government to set up a legal aid fund for the dam’s victims. Many of the people displaced by the dam were not given adequate compensation for their losses — others were even jailed or beaten for exposing corrupt officials.
Possible earthquake and bank stability due to the reservoir
The possible earthquake issue due to Three Gorges reservoir has been emphasized by the government for a long time, and extensive researches have been made on the issue involved in the rock, geologic structure, osmosis, etc. A 300~800 m deep-hole earth stress observation is carried out at dam and reservoir site and the earthquake intensive observation is made on some fracture zones around the dam. According to the researches, the geologic structure is stable, and has no geological background for a
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