(September 23, 2010) Chinese authorities are drawing up a national natural disaster “risk map” in a bid to improve planning of urban construction projects in western China to avoid potential catastrophes.
“China’s green laws are useless”
(September 23, 2010) In a speech in August, Peking University professor and expert in environmental law, Wang Jin, argued that legislation in China is failing to tackle pollution. This is a summary of his remarks.
Dam safety and earthquake
(September 20 2010) IWP&DC presents a position paper of the International Commission on Large Dams (ICOLD), prepared by the Committee on Seismic Aspects of Dam Design.
Dam migration ends, transition ongoing
(September 19, 2010) Peng Pu, writing for Global Times, says that while many of the migrants from Three Gorges have been resettled, there is still much left to do.
Chinese loan underwrites Lake Turkana destruction
(September 17, 2010) Terri Hathaway of International Rivers says NGOs are outraged after discovering the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) is set to finance the Gibe 3 dam.
China Is Set to Lose 2% of GDP Cleaning Up Decades of Pollution
(September 17, 2010) Officials overseeing China’s fast-growing economy will have to one day clean up the problems being reaped on country’s environment. When that happens, it will negatively impact economic growth, writes Bloomberg News.
The heavy hand of the Chinese state tries to go green
(September 17, 2010) As Chinese officials look to “green” their image internationally by cleaning up polluting sectors such as manufacturing and power generation, they’re using a very traditional method: the heavy hand of the state. But that heavy hand is backfiring, creating massive blackouts, and ironically, leading to worse pollution.
For their own good
(September 17, 2010) World Bank projects move millions from their homelands…whether they like it or not
Dams threaten farmers, fishermen in India’s northeast – activists
(September 15, 2010) Hundreds of thousands of residents in northeastern India are protesting plans to build 168 dams in a remote Himalayan region bordering China, Nepal, Bangladesh and Myanmar, reports Amarjyoti Borah for AlertNet.
China’s beleaguered Yangtze
(September 10, 2010) Overfishing, pollution and dams have all taken their toll on the health of China’s Yangtze River, writes Richard Stone in Yale Environment 360.
Dirty Three Gorges is not a new problem
(September 9, 2010) Probe International’s chronology of worries about the contamination of China’s Yangtze River and dirty waters behind the dam.
Chinese “Going out” investments in Southeast Asia facing increased scrutiny says report
(September 8, 2010) As China continues to invest in major infrastructure projects abroad, a new reports says it’s quickly learning that the rules outside of its borders aren’t the same as those within it, writes Brady Yauch.
How Chinese science lost its backbone
(September 23, 2010) This China Media Project piece discusses the political and commercial interests skewing Chinese science today – and the lack of scientists like Huang Wanli with the backbone to say no to foolish mega-projects.
New migrants, same story: villagers in Sichuan protest relocation packages
(September 2, 2010) Chinese officials say they’ve learned from the mistakes made in resettling citizens for the construction of Three Gorges, but recent evidence, says Probe International, suggests otherwise.
Dam’s flood control capacity overstated, experts say
(September 1, 2010) The flood control capacity of the Three Gorges dam continues to be questioned by analysts and former officials, writes Toh Han Shih in the South China Morning Post.
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