(September 25, 2001) An inside source reports the Chinese government is planning to channel a budget of US$2.5 billion to help treat water pollution in the Three Gorges reservoir over a 10-year period.
Murky practices mar bidding for Three Gorges cleanup contracts
(October 31, 2001) Hundreds of factories, hospitals and other buildings containing hazardous materials are to be dismantled and their sites scrubbed clean before the Three Gorges dam reservoir is filled to the 135-metre level in 2003. But as the deadline looms, concern is mounting that time is too short for an environmental cleanup of this magnitude.
Li Peng raises concerns about Three Gorges turbines and river-traffic disruption
(November 21, 2001) Li Peng, long-time champion of the Three Gorges dam, has raised concerns about the project’s giant turbines, which will be larger and more complicated than any ever attempted before.
Study on Methods of Reservoir Induced Seismicity Prediction of the Three Gorges Reservoir”
(October 17, 2008) Based on the analysis of seismogeological background, the Three Gorges Reservoir area is divided into 31 units according to different combined conditions of induced earthquake, together with 8 influencing factors, to give the prediction on probability and magnitude of RIS by adopting statistical prediction model, fuzzy mathematics and gray system model as well as artificial neural network model respectively.
Chilean Patagonia Without Dams
(October 16, 2008) A leading Chilean environmental activist, Juan Pablo Orrego will share his analysis of hydroelectric mega-projects proposed for Chilean Patagonia, and will also explore the broader context of economic and political power that shapes energy policy in Chile and contrains opportunities for meaningful democratic process on environmental questions.
Three Gorges project sticks to schedule amid SARS crisis
(May 7, 2003) The current health crisis in China will have no impact on plans to fill the Three Gorges reservoir next month, state media reports.
Hidroaysen’s impact study panned by govt agencies
(October 12, 2008) Environment Minister Ana Lya Uriarte: “EIS isn’t up to snuff”
Vietnamese experts fault electricity monopoly for power cuts
(October 10, 2008) Vietnamese economists and industrial power consumers have criticized Electricity of Vietnam, the only electricity provider in Vietnam, for its unannounced power cuts, which have caused heavy losses for businesses and disrupted people’s lives, Vietnam News Agency reports.
A shortage of capital flows
(October 9, 2008) Probe International’s latest report is cited in an Economist article that describes how officials planned to divert water from Hebei province to Beijing for use during the Olympics, but instead waited until September 18th to begin the transfer.
Expert who refused to sign off on Three Gorges
(January 9, 2004) Journalist Dai Qing interviews Guo Laixi, an eminent geographer who took part in the Chinese feasibility study for the Three Gorges dam but became so alarmed about the project’s potential impacts that he refused to sign the study team’s final report.
Zhang Guangdou speaks his mind on Three Gorges
(February 4, 2004) A key figure in China’s dam-building program who helped design the Three Gorges project calls the quality of construction work on the dam ‘far from excellent’ and ‘not first-class.’
Three Gorges: Lessons from Sanmenxia
(February 12, 2004) The problems that beset the Sanmenxia dam ‘will undoubtedly afflict the Three Gorges,’ a writer concludes in this excerpt from Dai Qing’s 1998 book, The River Dragon Has Come!
Dam implicated in dangerous downstream drought
(February 18, 2004) The Three Gorges dam is partly to blame for dangerously low water levels in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River that have caused dozens of ships to run aground, official Chinese media reports say.
China completes dam of world’s largest hydroelectric project
(March 10, 2000) ‘Many people have known something is wrong with the project, but few have dared to speak up,’ high-profile dam opponent Dai Qing wrote on Three Gorges Probe.
China marks completion of Three Gorges dam
(March 10, 2000) China completed construction on Saturday of the controversial Three Gorges Dam, the world’s largest hydroelectricity project, and marked the occasion with a subdued ceremony broadcast live on state television. …
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