(November 5, 2006) Full text of presentation at the Global Perspectives on Large Dams Conference: Evaluating the State of Large Dam Construction and Decommissioning Across the World. The speech was published in a report of the conference held November 3-5, 2006.
China to begin construction of another hydropower plant on Yangtze River
(November 4, 2006) China will begin working on another hydropower station on Yalong River, a major tributary on the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, this month.
Taiwan’s premier faces corruption case
(November 3, 2006) Pressure is mounting for Taiwan President Chen Shun-bian to resign: his wife, Wu Shu-chen, and three former presidential aides, face charges of graft and embezzlement; prosecutors say there is evidence to charge the president as well − once he loses the immunity he has while in office.
Water quality remains sound at Three Gorges Dam area
(November 1, 2006) Little water pollution has been detected at the Three Gorges Dam area since the water level of the gigantic dam reached the 156-meter mark on Friday, the latest monitoring reports show.
Multinational corporations in China blacklisted for pollution
(November 1, 2006) A pollution blacklist has been issued by the Institute of Public & Environmental Affairs, a Chinese NGO.
Foreign aid: This kind of ‘help’ is just no help at all
(October 31, 2006) The multi-billion dollar aid industry has largely failed in Africa. Not only have they failed along with others in the aid industry, most nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have become part of the problem. Not that they will admit their failure.
Odious Debt: definition, application and context
(October 30, 2006) The co-author of Advancing the Odious Debts Doctrine addresses how the doctrine can be applied and in which contexts.
Three Gorges generating units pass full generation capacity test
(October 30, 2006) Fourteen generating units of the Three Gorges Project, the world’s largest hydropower plant, have passed a 72-hour full operating capacity test, an official in charge of the project said on Sunday.
Seismologists: further destructive earthquakes in China city unlikely
(October 30, 2006) Seismologists in central China’s Hubei province have ruled out the possibility of a stronger quake jolting Suizhou city, which was hit Friday by an earthquake measuring 4.7 degrees on the Richter scale.
Pollution threatens China’s oldest hydropower station
(October 30, 2006) Water pollution is threatening China’s oldest hydropower station — built nearly a century ago — and has forced it to halt operation several times.
Experts: Dongting Lake to disappear after a century
Changsha: Dongting Lake, the second biggest freshwater lake in China, will completely disappear from the earth because of accumulated silt after a century, experts have warned.
Weeding out corruption
(October 29, 2006) A recent Vatican document summarizing some of the lessons learned in the fight against corruption recommends increased public exposure of wrongdoers and punishment for the guilty, as well as more cooperation between governments in extraditing criminals.
Environmental NGOs called on to play a bigger role
(October 29, 2006) China’s environmental NGOs have been called upon to play a bigger role in promoting and supervising environmental protection, now an important part of China’s social and economic construction.
Crackdown drives illegal logging to neighboring nations
Beijing: Upon determining that deforestation was to blame for devastating flooding by the Yangtze River in 1998, which killed 2,500 people and caused billions of dollars in damage, China promptly enacted an aggressive package of measures aimed at protecting its existing forest growth, rehabilitating distressed areas and reclaiming forests that had been converted to farmland.
Quakes jolt Three Gorges area as huge reservoir fills
(October 29, 2006) The strongest earthquake to hit China’s Hubei province in two decades shook an area near the Three Gorges dam on Oct. 27, the same day the project’s rising reservoir reached the 2006 target of 156 metres above sea level.
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