(November 19, 1999) China’s longest river is "cancerous" with pollution and rapidly dying, threatening drinking water supplies in 186 cities along its banks, state media said on Tuesday. Chinese environmental experts fear worsening pollution could kill the Yangtze river within five years, Xinhua news agency said, calling for an urgent clean-up.
The Three Gorges Project: an error in ‘democratic decision-making’
(November 16, 1999) After eleven and a half years, the construction of Three Gorges Dam located on the Yangtze River at Sandouping of Yichang City, Hubei Province was officially completed on the morning of May 20, 2006.
Crisis as Yangtze evacuees rise to 4m
China is to move 700,000 people from low-lying areas along the Yangtze River before next summer’s flood season, the official China Daily newspaper reported yesterday.
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Minister of the Economy Muller: Federal Government gives export guarantee to Siemens for the Three Gorges dam in China. Protests on account of the resettlement of two million people.
City water vulnerable to ‘cancerous’ river
(November 1, 1999) Experts warned yesterday that the Yangtze River has become so "cancerous" with pollution that it is threatening the safety of drinking water in Shanghai and other cities along its banks.
China’s largest hydro dam unable to stem losses
China’s largest hydro-electric dam, built with the biggest project loan ever extended by the World Bank, is running at about half capacity and making a hefty loss, executives and bankers said yesterday.
Chongqing municipality refuses to buy power from World Bank-financed Ertan dam
China’s largest hydrodam will lose US$121 million (1 billion yuan) this year, according to its general manager, because it doesn’t have enough customers for its output.
PRESS RELEASE: China’s largest hydrodam can’t sell its power
China’s largest hydrodam will lose US$121 million (1 billion yuan) this year, according to its general manager, because it doesn’t have enough customers for its output.
Expert warns of ecological doom
The mainland faces an ecological catastrophe if the authorities continue to ignore environmental protection, an expert warned yesterday.
Monuments of the millennium
(October 12, 1999) ASIA’S monuments for the start of the next millennium will not be tall towers or staggering statues but giant hydroelectric dams.
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(October 8, 1999) Landslides destroyed hundreds of homes in the Three Gorges dam area, according to a September 3, 1999, report inHua Xia Wen Zha (HXWZ), a Chinese-language Internet magazine based in the United States.
Three Gorges resettlement in chaos, awaiting central government directives
(October 8, 1999) A recent fact-finding trip to the Three Gorges area reveals that the resettlement of up to two million people is in chaos.
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Monitoring equipment to ensure safe demolition of cofferdam
Workers have begun to install monitoring equipment that will measure the impact of the huge explosion planned for Tuesday aimed at demolishing the last cofferdam built for the construction of the Three Gorges dam.
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