(May 4, 2000) ‘The electricity produced by the dam is much more expensive than that produced in other ways, because it costs tons of money to relocate local people and to offset the disasters it has caused to build the dam,’ says journalist Dai Qing.
Three Gorges can withstand natural disasters, terror attacks: undertaker
Three Gorges dam site, Hubei province: The Three Gorges Dam designed to tame major flood on Yangtze River seen once in a thousand years is solid enough to withstand natural disasters and terrorist attacks, said Cao Guangjing, deputy general manager of China Yangtze River Three Gorges Project Development Corporation, at a press conference in Yichang on Friday.
What cost as China tames mother river?
(May 3, 2000) Article excerpt: …The dam’s most outspoken opponent is Dai Qing, a journalist turned activist whose book Yangtze! Yangtze!, which argued that the dam is a waste of money and an environment disaster, brought her 10 months in a maximum security jail.
Foreign estimates of Three Gorges costs ‘wrong’, official
Li Yongan, general manager of the company building the dam, outlined how the project would come in under budget in response to foreign news reports of ‘Western estimates’ that put the cost at between US$40 billion and US$50 billion.
Huge funds spent to clear garbage threatening Three Gorges Dam
China spends 10 million yuan (US$1.3 million) a year to prevent floating garbage from piling up behind the Three Gorges dam, project officials say.
Chinese engineers and scientists urge leadership to change Three Gorges dam operating plan
(April 26, 2000) Reservoir Level Should Be Kept Low to Reduce Resettlement and Navigation Problems, Experts Warn
Two German companies join in designing Three Gorges shiplift
Three Gorges dam site, Hubei: Two German engineering companies have won contracts to jointly design the world’s largest shiplift project with the design institute of the world’s largest hydropower project at the Three Gorges on the Yangtze River. The information has been confirmed by both the China Yangtze River Three Gorges Development Corporation, developer of the project, and the Survey and the Design Institute of the Yangtze Water Resources Committee (YWRC).
Keep the doors to China wide open
(April 20, 2000) PI Fellow and Chinese environmentalist Dai Qing argues for permanent, normal trade status to promote freedom in China.
Chinese gov’t response to Three Gorges dam petition
(April 17, 2000) Official Response to Experts’ Three Gorges Dam Petition
Three Gorges Project benefits from opinions of opponents
Three Gorges dam site, Hubei: The major structure of the gigantic Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River, China’s longest, was completed Saturday. The project, often compared to the Great Wall in its scale, absorbed and benefited from a great amount of opinions from opponents, which enabled its schemes to improve continuously.
“Fill a lake, start an earthquake”: Damming and Reservoir-Induced Seismicity
(April 04, 2000) A paper by Heather Gingerich, a medical geologist who specializes in hydrogeochemistry and the director of the Canadian chapter of the International Medical Geology Association, detailing evidence in support […]
No cracks detected in Three Gorges southern dam: expert
(April 3, 2000) Pan, academician of both Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Engineering and head of the experts panel for the Three Gorges project revealed that some cracks have been detected on the surface of the northern-bank dam section, and they have been treated properly.
PRESS RELEASE Three Gorges executive fired for malfeasance
(March 24, 2000) State auditors unravel Three Gorges web of corruption – A top executive with the largest Three Gorges dam subcontractor was fired in January for his decision to buy second-hand, dilapidated construction machinery to build the world’s largest hydrodam.
Chinese official sentenced to death for stealing resettlement funds
(March 24, 2000) Chongqing city has handed down the first dealth penalty in connection with Three Gorges corruption, a Singapore-based newspaper, Lianhe Zaobao, reported on March 11.
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