(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.
Foreign firms blacklisted for pollution
(October 28, 2006) Shanghai: A mainland environmentalist has released a list of more than 30 foreign-invested companies that the government has blacklisted for causing water pollution and accused them of double standards.
Chinese government will continue supporting big hydropower: expert
(October 28, 2006) China is unlikely to turn its back on the massive and largely unexploited hydropower potential despite a number of recent controversies and setbacks, an expert with the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) said on Tuesday.
Water in Three Gorges reservoir up to 156 meters
(October 28, 2006) The water level in the Three Gorges reservoir reached the 156-meter mark at 9:50 a.m. on Friday, a rise of 20 meters since September 20, when this phase of the water storage plan went into operation.
Quake strikes near China’s Three Gorges Dam
(October 28, 2006) An earthquake measuring 4.7 on the Richter scale struck central China near the $25-billion Three Gorges Dam, but no damage to the structure was immediately reported, state media said Saturday.
Foreign firms blacklisted for pollution
(October 28, 2006) A mainland environmentalist has released a list of more than 30 foreign-invested companies that the government has blacklisted for causing water pollution and accused them of double standards.
Three Gorges reservoir stores water to 156-meter mark
(October 27, 2006) The water level in the Three Gorges reservoir reached the 156-meter mark at 9:50 a.m. on Friday, a rise of 20 meters since Sept. 20, when this stage of water storage plan was kicked off. The water level in the reservoir will eventually reach 175 meters in 2009, when the Three Gorges project is finally completed.
Multinationals blacklisted for pollution
(October 27, 2006) Chinese joint ventures with global corporations such as Panasonic, Pepsi-Cola and Nestle are among 33 multinational companies that various levels of government have blacklisted for causing water pollution, according to a non-governmental organization.
Blacklist marks foreign offenders
(October 27, 2006) A government blacklist uncovered by accident names 33 multinationals in China, including four of the world’s top 500 companies, that have broken the country’s water pollution laws in the past three years.
Nu River dam plans to be scaled back
(October 26, 2006) China’s minister of water resources has poured cold water on the plan to build 13 dams on the Nu River in the southwest of the country, calling the proposal a form of "predatory development."
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