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Major electrical artery comes to life at Three Gorges dam project

By Other News Sources on August 27, 2008 • ( Leave a comment )

A major component of Three Gorges dam project, a 500,000-volt power transmission line began transmitting power on Oct. 11, 2000

Concrete pouring at Three Gorges dam resumes

By Other News Sources on August 27, 2008 • ( Leave a comment )

Concrete pouring at the Three Gorges dam on the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, has fully resumed after being suspended due to a major accident early last month.

Unrest grows in Three Gorges resettlement areas

By Other News Sources on August 27, 2008 • ( Leave a comment )

As violence grows in the Three Gorges resettlement areas, international NGOs call for immediate action by government and investors to address affected peoples’ grievances.

U.S.-based Rotec sued for Three Gorges accident

By Other News Sources on August 27, 2008 • ( Leave a comment )

The wife of a construction worker who died while working on the site is now suing Rotec Industries, a U.S.-based manufacturer of conveyor systems that transport and place concrete

NGOs urge response to grievances over Three Gorges resettlement

By Other News Sources on August 27, 2008 • ( Leave a comment )

As violence grows in the Three Gorges resettlement areas, international NGOs call for immediate action by government and investors to address affected peoples’ grievances.

Three Gorges investigation damns equipment

By Other News Sources on August 27, 2008 • ( Leave a comment )

Equipment failure is to blame for an accident that claimed three lives and severely injured 20 others at Three Gorges Project site

Three Gorges embezzlement played down

By Other News Sources on August 27, 2008 • ( Leave a comment )

Officials yesterday sought to play down reports of embezzlement in the Three Gorges Dam project, saying they related to the resettlement of locals and not to the dam’s construction.

Resettlement aims to save environment

By Other News Sources on August 27, 2008 • ( Leave a comment )

Officials confirmed that there will be an exodus of some 125,000 locals from the future reservoir area of the mammoth Three Gorges Project, which will be the world’s largest hydropower dam and is currently under construction across the Yangtze R

Project will not damage Yangtze’s ecosystems

By Other News Sources on August 27, 2008 • ( Leave a comment )

The Three Gorges Project, the world’s largest hydropower dam, will be environmentally friendly and will not destroy the ecological systems of the Yangtze River area, where the dam is being built, senior officials promised.

Open the floodgates: Three Gorges project hammers out listing plans

By Other News Sources on August 27, 2008 • ( Leave a comment )

Li Yongan, vice president of the China Yangtze Three Gorges Project Development Corp., recently said that his company has worked out several listing plans

Chinese workers killed at Three Gorges dam

By Other News Sources on August 27, 2008 • ( Leave a comment )

A conveyor belt from an American-built tower crane fell more than 60 feet onto a group of Chinese workers, killing three and injuring 30, the Chinese press reported.

Nature’s friend

By Other News Sources on August 27, 2008 • ( Leave a comment )

Liang Congjie, founder of China’s first environmental NGO and outspoken critic of the Three Gorges dam, wins a Magsaysay Award, Asia’s version of the Nobel Prize.

Criticism, financial uncertainty surround China’s Three Gorges dam

By Other News Sources on August 27, 2008 • ( Leave a comment )

Asian Assets Direct May 23, 2006 Washington – A controversial Chinese dam that has received billions of dollars in financing from U.S., European and Japanese banks and export credit agencies is being […]

Yangtze dam ‘a disaster’

By Other News Sources on August 27, 2008 • ( Leave a comment )

A group of 53 experts, including former Three Gorges engineers, dam experts, parliamentarians and cultural officials, have signed a petition released by Three Gorges Probe, reports the Telegraph.

Land for gorges project ‘illegally claimed’

By Other News Sources on August 27, 2008 • ( Leave a comment )

Citizens complain as local governments illegally claim land for Three Gorges Dam project.

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