Probe International

Most of the world’s 45,000 large dams don’t do their jobs properly. So concludes the first ever global audit of a technology that has cost $2 trillion over the past century.

A reservoir created by China’s Three Gorges Dam will become a giant cesspool because of pollution that is threatening the Yangtze River, a monitoring group said Monday.

Construction for the Three Gorges Dam Project seems to be going better than expected, or at least that’s what the project’s general manger is saying.

The Three Gorges Dam project will be completed on schedule in 2009, a senior company official was quoted as saying yesterday.

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.