A large team of Chinese professional photographers is to be taken soon on an official last-chance tour of the Three Gorges area, the Yangcheng Evening News (Yangcheng wanbao) reports.
No room for errors as construction reaches critical stage: project official
He Gong, vice-president of the Three Gorges Project Corporation, spoke recently with the Three Gorges Daily saying that to meet the extremely tight schedule, "we have no time to waste and no room for errors."
Investment aims to prevent disaster
(February 7, 2002) China will inject 4 billion yuan (US$483.1 million) in the next two years to keep its Three Gorges Reservoir area free of landslides and other geological hazards.
Reservoir cleanup ‘risks overlooking radioactive waste’
Serious pollutants such as radioactive waste, and hospital refuse that could cause infectious diseases, risk being overlooked in the Three Gorges reservoir cleanup, a senior member of China’s non-Communist advisory body, the CPPCC, has warned.
Reservoir cleanup ‘risks overlooking radioactive waste’
(February 4, 2002) Chongqing – Serious pollutants such as radioactive waste, and hospital refuse that could cause infectious diseases, risk being overlooked in the Three Gorges reservoir cleanup, a senior member of China’s non-Communist advisory body, the CPPCC, has warned.
He Gong interview with Three Gorges Daily (Sanxia gongcheng bao)
When 10-year-olds debate the dam, the people win
When Tim Wilson’s Grade 4 class staged a debate recently on the Three Gorges dam, ‘the people’ took on ‘the government,’ and triumphed.
Quick cleanup sparks fears of an environmental time bomb
(January 23, 2002) As China races against the clock to clean up the bottom of the future Three Gorges reservoir this year, experts fear the colossal undertaking could be too little, too late to avert an environmental catastrophe.
China races to save history
"[I]t would take 500 years to find all the archeological treasures in the Three Gorges," Associated Press quotes a senior archeologist, while Beijing calls the effort to save relics threatened by dam as the biggest historical salvage operation ever.
Oil-hunting China aims to curb appetite
(January 20, 2002) ‘While striving to secure foreign oil and gas to fuel sizzling economic growth of more than 9 percent a year, [China] is struggling to limit soaring reliance on outside supplies by increasing nuclear and hydroelectric power.’
Reservoir cleanup begins with a bang
The Three Gorges reservoir cleanup operation blasts off this Sunday when a power plant is blown up live on national television, the Chongqing Economic News (Chongqing jingji bao) reports.
Migrants not above the law, newspaper warns
People displaced by the Three Gorges dam should not regard themselves as "special citizens" above the law, the Three Gorges Project Daily (Sanxia gongcheng bao) has warned.
Yangtze River pollution at dangerous levels
(January 17, 2002) A new report raises fresh concerns about the potential health risks of the massive Three Gorges Dam. Critics of the project fear clean-up funds allocated by the Chinese government will not be enough. Canadian environmental group Probe International says in 2000, Chinese academics pleaded for $37 billion for environmental projects relating to the dam’s construction.
Green watchdog wants accident news fast
(January 17, 2002) China’s State Environmental Protection Administration wants local authorities to report environmental accidents within an hour so it can better inform the public of impending disasters.
Dam won’t solve flood problem: Hubei party boss
The new Communist Party boss of Hubei province has warned that the Three Gorges dam will not solve the Yangtze River flood problem, according to the Web site of the Changjiang Water Resources Commission (CWRC).
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