(May 14, 2006) China’s US$4 billion (HK$31 billion) dam in Henan province across the Yellow River has been unable to find customers for its electricity, according to its vice-general manager, Wang Xianwu.
China planning nuclear blasts to build giant hydro project
(May 14, 2006) Chinese leaders are drawing up plans to use nuclear explosions, in breach of the international test-ban treaty, to blast a tunnel through the Himalayas for the world’s biggest hydroelectric plant.
Dam project graft figure ‘exaggerated’
Almost no money has been embezzled from the Three Gorges Dam relocation funds, officials in charge of the controversial project have claimed.
Three Gorges Dam nears completion, critics fear catastrophe
(May 12, 2006) The Chinese government has ignored the real costs of the Three Gorges project in order to justify a bad decision, Probe International‘s Patricia Adams tells Interfax.
Probe International Special Report: Skyscraper dams in Yunnan:
(May 12, 2006) State-backed dam builders are erecting a string of skyscraper-high dams in earthquake-prone Yunnan province to meet Beijing’s power production targets, without the benefit of market discipline or effective regulatory oversight.
China preparing for huge gas project
(May 12, 2006) Preparatory work is going smoothly on China’s huge energy project to pump gas from the west to the east, which is expected to equal the Three Gorges Project in cost.
China to boost development of wind power
(May 11, 2006) China will give a major boost to the development of wind power to benefit 23 million people living in hinterland areas or on the coastal islands by 2010.
Power transmission from China’s west to east
(May 10, 2006) China will speed up the development of electric power resources in the west region to prepare for a huge west-to-east electricity transmission project.
Global study blasts ills of hydro dams
"Development critics find report too hopeful." Article quotes Grainne Ryder.
Large hydropower plant to be build in Yunnan
(May 8, 2006) China is speeding up the preparation for its second largest hydro power plant in southwest China’s Yunnan Provinces along the Lancang River.
Graft found in China’s power monopoly
(May 7, 2006) Investigators have uncovered a web of corruption within China’s power monopoly.
Three Gorges revisited
(May 3, 2006) Sichuan geologist Fan Xiao travels to the Three Gorges reservoir area, and reports on aspects of the project that continue to trouble Chinese experts.
Now there’s only one place to go for environmental-accident info
(May 2, 2006) China’s General Administration of the Environment has issued a notice declaring that it alone will make public environmentally damaging accidents and related information.
How the Three Gorges project was funded
(May 1, 2006) Where did the money come from to build the dam? For a start, all of China’s power consumers were forced to pay in advance for Three Gorges electricity, even though many will never use it.
Construction industry journal calls dam a dinosaur
Three Gorges Probe March 1, 2006 In a survey of China’s booming infrastructure sector, the industry journal International Construction has highlighted some of the problems surrounding the Three Gorges dam project: "Construction […]
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