China’s top planning agency is appealing to Beijing for extra funds to prevent the planned Three Gorges reservoir from becoming a huge sewage lake.
Team Canada assists China’s power monopolists
China’s old guard has decided to make its stand for central rule in the power sector and it has found an important Western ally: Canada.
Nu River: Fact box
(April 25, 2006) Background information on the plans to dam the Nu River, one of only two major rivers in China unfragmented by dams.
Nu River champion wins prestigious environmental award
(April 25, 2006) Yu Xiaogang, who has won a 2006 Goldman Environmental Prize, led a group of Nu valley farmers on a field trip two years ago to visit the Manwan dam on the Lancang (Mekong) River. The visitors were shocked at the destitution they found.
Plan curbs Three Gorges pollution
(April 6, 2006) Beijing is trying to halt the flow of sediment and industrial pollution into the massive reservoir that will be created with the construction of the dam on the Yangtze River.
Ertan hydroelectric power plant seeks loan extension
(April 6, 2006) Ertan is asking for a 10-year deferral of loan repayments, including some to the World Bank. Since opening in 1998, the Ertan dam has lost an average of US$145 million annually due to an electricity glut in Sichuan province.
IRN letter urges US financier Morgan Stanley not to back China's Three dam
IRN writes urging that, in light of recent evidence of human rights abuses at Three Gorges dam, Morgan Stanley should not commit to future bond underwriting or financial support for China Development Bank
75,000 people to be relocated as part of Longtan Power Station project
(April 1, 2006) Longtan Power Station will be second in size to the Three Gorges dam but officials say it will require far fewer people to be relocated.
Sichuan drought could pull plug in Chengdu
(March 31, 2006) The extreme lack of water, due to a drought in Sichuan province, has seriously affected the ability to generate power. The province has prepared its last remaining backup coal-fueled generator as the power grid strains to supply electricity.
Three Gorges dam implicated in serious embankment breaches
(March 31, 2006) Officials in Hunan province, racing to repair ruptures in earthen embankments near Yueyang, point to the big dam 400 kilometres upriver as the main cause of the dangerous situation.
Water power everywhere: China building another world-class hydropower station
(March 30, 2006) In the pattern of the Longtan Power Station and the Three Gorges Power Station, China is set to start building another world-class hydropower station before the end of this year – the Xiaowan Power Station at Lancang River in Yunnan province.
China’s willing censors
(March 26, 2006) What do recent events in China tell us about the power of information technology to transform repressive societies?
Moves to curb river pollution
(March 23, 2006) China is stepping up its fight against sewage and waste in the Yangtze River in answer to growing public concern about ecological disaster.
Chongqing unveils plan for two Yangtze dams
(March 22, 2006) Chongqing, the sprawling municipality at the upstream end of the Three Gorges reservoir, has revealed a plan to build two big dams on the main channel of the Yangtze River, the Chongqing Morning Post (Chongqing chenbao) reported yesterday [Mar 21].
Senior official stresses environmental protection
(March 21, 2006) China must make more efforts to improve its deteriorating environment, said the chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference.
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