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.
Chongqing fights crimes from Three Gorges resettlement
(May 24, 2006) Local authorities in Chongqing are launching a three-month campaign to deal with officials who have illegally used their influence to profit from the resettlement of the multi-billion yuan Three Gorges Dam Project.
Finding the true cost of China’s west-east hydro
Probe International Special Report: Grainne Ryder argues that China’s new electricity regulator should initiate a full-cost review of state dam-building in earthquake-prone Yunnan province.
China’s nuclear-power program loses steam
(May 23, 2006) Sources say the next five-year plan may pull the plug on building more atomic plants: "Dai Qing, one of China’s most ardent environmental activists, says there’s a good reason for the lack of an anti-nuclear outcry following the Qinshan shutdown."
Reaching to new heights of fraud
(May 22, 2006) Since 1998, Three Gorges Probe has been reporting on corruption at China’s Ministry of Water Resources. This article details the latest MWR scandal.
Dam completion washes away old China
(May 21, 2006) The Sunday Times reports on protests against resettlement policies in China, where 1.3 million people were pushed off their land to make way for the Three Gorges Dam.
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