(June 18, 2008) Supreme Court Associate Justice Reynato Puno has urged the government to consider stopping payments for loans that the late strongman Ferdinand Marcos borrowed to build the mothballed Bataan Nuclear Power Plant.
Villagers damned by Chinese corruption
From the front of his ramshackle video shop, Chen Zhi Yan has a front row view of China’s biggest engineering achievement since the Great Wall.
Three Gorges: A cautionary tale
Kelly Haggart and Yang Chongqing – Watershed October 1, 2005
Southern bank of China’s Three Gorges Project set to begin operation
The first power generator on the southern bank of China’s Three Gorges Project is expected to be linked to the grid and begin operating this month.
Expert warns of dirty dam
The water quality in China’s Three Gorges reservoir on the Yangtze River is being polluted by discharge from industry and towns upstream of the giant dam, a Chinese environmental scientist said yesterday.
Competing surveys receive varied attention in Chile’s main dailies
(June 18, 2008) A new poll concerning the HidroAysén dam project is raising questions not only about what Chileans really think of the controversial hydroelectric venture, but also about how the issue is being treated by the nation’s major newspapers.
Dredgers dig shipping lanes in drying Yangtze
Shipping channels in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River are to be dredged as the water falls to its lowest level in 20 years.
Authorities have withdrawn a large silt dredger from a north China offshore construction site to dredge channels at Heishazhou (Blacksand Shoal), 40 kilometers upstream from Wuhu Bridge on the lower reaches, said Wan Dabin, a senior official with the Yangtze River Waterway Bureau.
China forced to step up diversion of Yangtze River to tackle Wuxi water crisis
China has stepped up the diversion of the Yangtze River to dilute water polluted by blue-green algae in a lake that provides drinking water for millions of people in the eastern Chinese city of Wuxi.
China’s Three Gorges Project gears up for full operation
China’s largest hydropower project, the Three Gorges Project, is expected to start full operation three to four months ahead of schedule as workers speed up the installation of the 12 turbines on the right bank of the Gorges.
No scientific ground to blame Three Gorges for pollution on Yangtze River
The water quality of Yangtze River has become of increasing concern. Has the Three Gorges Dam Project caused the pollution in Yangtze River? Lu Youmei, an academic of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, as well as the chairman of the Chinese National Committee on Large Dams, answered the question when interviewed by the People’s Daily journalist.
First turbine of Three Gorges Project on right bank starts operation
Electricity generation now spans the two banks of China’s largest hydropower project, the Three Gorges Project, with the first turbine generator on the right bank of the river going into operation on Monday after a 72-hour trial.
Floodwaters put China’s Three Gorges dam to the test
Flood waters are putting China’s massive Three Gorges Dam to the test and raising water levels on its longest river, the Yangtze, after weeks of floods nationwide killed about 700 people, state media said on Tuesday.
Sold down the river
This extensive and interactive piece charts journalist Jamil Anderlini’s return to the Three Gorges Dam and includes interviews with Chongqing mayor, Fu Xiancao, Dai Qing, and a slide show of towns along the Yangtze.
Three Gorges transmission lines down amid power shortages
Heavy snowstorms felled three power transmission towers along a
majorline of the Three Gorges dam, disrupting a link in central China’s
transmission system, Xinhua news agency reported last month.
Olympics water diversion scheme starts this month
(March 11, 2008) To ensure Beijing has enough water for the Olympic games this August, about 300 million cubic
metres of water will be diverted from drought-stricken Hebei province starting the end of this month.
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