China Daily June 8, 2006 The central government is drafting a long-term plan for controlling floods, cut-offs, pollution and the build-up of sediment on the Yellow River. Harnessing the river will ensure […]
Electric giant sparks new market
(June 7, 2006) The State Power Corp of China, the nation’s major electricity supplier, is striving to reshape itself as a market-oriented conglomerate.
Pollution costs equal 10% of China’s GDP
(June 6, 2006) Projects will be cancelled if they cause overdevelopment of land resources or negatively affect the surrounding environment, said SEPA deputy director Zhu Guangyao.
Triple threat to the Yangtze
(June 6, 2006) Ma Jun is a Beijing-based environmental advocate and author of the acclaimed China’s Water Crisis (EastBridge, 2004). Time magazine recently named him one of the ‘100 people who shape our world.’ The following article appeared in the New Beijing News (Xin jingbao) June 1.
China’s new dam builders and electricity regulator
(July 6, 2006) China’s new electricity industry regulator (SERC) should initiate an open and impartial review of proposed large-scale hydro investments in Yunnan province, in cooperation with its environmental counterpart, SEPA.
New doubts over Chinese plant
Financial Times June 6, 2006 Beijing–Demand for power from China’s controversial $24.5bn Three Gorges hydro-power project, the world’s largest civil engineering undertaking, may fall significantly short of supply, a former senior executive […]
Keep the doors to China wide open
(June 6, 2006) PI Fellow and Chinese environmentalist Dai Qing argues for permanent, normal trade status to promote freedom in China.
Hydro-power to the fore
(June 6, 2006) Beijing aims to double the mainland’s hydro-power generating capacity in the next 15 years to solve the power shortage in the industrialised eastern part of the country.
Editorial: The murky pool
South China Morning Post June 5, 2006 It was meant to be among the greatest engineering feats of the era. A project to tame the Yangtze River, harnessing its hydro-electric power and […]
Chongqing uses foreign funds to improve environment
(June 2, 2006) Southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality started two projects to improve its urban environment.
China’s Three Gorges dam to begin flood control with a bang
(May 31, 2006) The moment of truth for the world’s largest dam will arrive on June 6. The main concrete wall of the Three Gorges dam on the Yangtze River must begin to hold water after a temporary cofferdam is demolished in a series of planned explosions.
Why Ertan can not sell its power
(May 30, 2006) “Ertan, the largest hydropower project in China, is frustrated by the reality that it is unable to sell its power.”
Drought paralyses big hydro scheme
(May 30, 2006) The severe northern drought has shut down the Xiaolangdi Dam, the largest and most expensive hydro-electric scheme on the Yellow River.
Environmentalists to fight globalization
(May 29, 2006) Article cites Dai Qing, a fellow of Probe International
China’s environmental disaster
The giant Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River risks choking China’s largest river port with silt and sewage and displacing 500,000 people unnecessarily, engineers and academics are warning the country’s political leaders.
Probe International 