(July 10, 2009) Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang has called for efforts to intensify construction and management of the Three Gorges Project and to improve its functions in flood control as the region is now in the peak flood season.
Fresh aftershock hits China quake region: USGS
(July 13, 2009) A fresh aftershock jolted China’s southwest Monday, three days after an earthquake in the same area killed one person, injured hundreds and directly affected two million people, state media said.
Three Gorges Madness: An Interview with Dai Qing
(December 24, 1997) THE DAUGHTER OF A REVOLUTIONARY MARTYR, a former missile technician and one-time intelligence agent, Dai Qing is China’s foremost investigative reporter. Dai Qing first criticized China’s Three Gorges dam project in the Chinese daily press, and compiled and edited Yangtze!, Yangtze!, a collection of essays by prominent Chinese intellectuals opposed to the dam, in 1989.
China’s Top TV Journalists Learn to Report Green
(April 9, 2008) With audience ratings that reach as high as 800 million people, China Central Television (CCTV) is one of the world’s largest broadcasters. It is also the predominant media organization in a severely environmentally challenged country that has the most people on the planet.
The Yangtze Dam: Feat or Folly?
(November 9, 1997) SANDOUPING, China — Here at what was once a scenic but treacherous bend in the first of the Yangtze River’s legendary three gorges, the Chinese government inched closer today to realizing a vision that combines ambition worthy of pyramid-building Pharaohs with the destructiveness of open-pit coal mining.
China to Build 1st 10 mln-kw-level Wind Power Station
(July 5, 2009) Workers would begin construction on China’s first 10 million-kw-level wind power station in mid-July in the far northwestern city of Jiuquan, Gansu Province, a local official said Sunday.
Killing mother nature with our green creed
(July 5, 2009) We in Britain are inclined to see the worst in massive state-driven projects, especially when these are promoted by governments that are undemocratic. We were right to be sceptical about the Soviet Union’s decision in the 1960s to divert rivers away from the Aral Sea, now largely a desert, and more recently about China’s Three Gorges Dam, which seems to be causing landslides, the displacement of millions of people and the extinction of the Yangtze River dolphin.
Faults and earthquakes in China monitored from space
(July 3, 2009) China is in a very seismically active area and has had many catastrophic earthquakes during its history. A joint European-Chinese team is using satellite radar data to monitor ground deformation across major continental faults in China to understand better the seismic cycle and how faults behave.
China environmental phenomena monitored from space
(July 3, 2009) Western China is a very seismically active area and has had many catastrophic earthquakes during its history. A joint European-Chinese team is using satellite radar data to monitor ground deformation across major continental faults in China to understand better the seismic cycle and how faults behave.
China says construction at Yunnan dam halted
(June 25, 2009) China’s environmental ministry has won its latest battle with influential state-owned power firms after forcing two of them to stop hydropower projects in the southwest province of Yunnan, an official said.
China aims to build “Three Gorges of wind power”
(June 25, 2009) China is aiming to build a huge wind farm in the northwest by 2020 that will have energy capacity similar to the gigantic Three Gorges Dam, a senior official said Thursday.
Aftershock strikes Sichuan, destroying houses, bridges
(June 30, 2009) Thousands of houses and dozens of small bridges were destroyed during a 5.6-magnitude aftershock that struck Mianzhu, Sichuan province, at 2:03 am Tuesday morning.
June 4 incident, Dai Qing and the Three Gorges dam project
(June 30, 2009) This article by Chinese engineer Dr. Wang Weiluo marks this year’s 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen “Incident” by linking the events of that fateful day to the Three Gorges dam project. Dr. Wang provides insights, never heard before, into the behind-the-scenes political machinations and the power brokering over Three Gorges dam in the aftermath of Tiananmen.
Quake jolts China’s Sichuan, no reports of damage
(June 29, 2009) A small earthquake occured in the early hours of Tuesday in the same part of China that was devastated by a quake last year, a spokesman for the State Seismological Bureau in Beijing said.
China’s environment ministry said review needed for planned dam that threatens Yangtze fish
(June 25, 2009) China’s environment ministry said Thursday that it has ordered an ecological assessment for a proposed Yangtze River dam that conservationists fear could threaten hundreds of fish species and drive the giant Chinese sturgeon into extinction.
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