(February 25, 2002) More than 100 of the 21,000 chemical plants located alongside China’s rivers and coastline pose safety threats, the country’s environment chief has warned.
Leading engineers call for geological-safety inspection
(February 21, 2002) Two senior Chinese water engineers have urged the central government to undertake a geological-safety inspection of new settlements being built in the Three Gorges area before the dam reservoir is filled next year.
Dam could imperil endangered-crane habitat, author warns
Downstream impacts of the Three Gorges dam could ‘fatally degrade’ an important wintering ground for the world’s most endangered crane species, writer-naturalist Peter Matthiessen warns in a new book.
Three Gorges resettlement: quick, coercive, corrupt
Residents of Wushan county who have refused to move to make way for the Three Gorges reservoir have had their homes blown up, the Three Gorges Project Daily (Sanxia gongcheng bao) reports.
Radioactive debris, diseased rats, anthrax and E. coli:
As uneasiness grows about the potential consequences of a slapdash cleanup of the Three Gorges reservoir bed, a respected newspaper has reported some of the latest concerns of Chinese environmental experts.
Photographers snap up limited-time offer
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.’
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