(July 6, 2006) China’s new electricity industry regulator (SERC) should initiate an open and impartial review of proposed large-scale hydro investments in Yunnan province, in cooperation with its environmental counterpart, SEPA.
Zhu demands crackdown on graft
South China Morning Post June 6, 2006 Financial watchdogs must get tough this year in the battle against corruption and plug any loopholes in the system, Premier Zhu Rongji warned yesterday. "The […]
New doubts over Chinese plant
Financial Times June 6, 2006 Beijing–Demand for power from China’s controversial $24.5bn Three Gorges hydro-power project, the world’s largest civil engineering undertaking, may fall significantly short of supply, a former senior executive […]
Keep the doors to China wide open
(June 6, 2006) PI Fellow and Chinese environmentalist Dai Qing argues for permanent, normal trade status to promote freedom in China.
Hydro-power to the fore
(June 6, 2006) Beijing aims to double the mainland’s hydro-power generating capacity in the next 15 years to solve the power shortage in the industrialised eastern part of the country.
Regime change?
(June 5, 2006) Governmental organizations never get the ax for operating losses. They don’t even die in their sleep. They claim new purposes for themselves and flourish. Just look at the IMF.
Beware the big, bland wolf
(June 5, 2006) The first year of Paul Wolfowitz at the World Bank.
Editorial: The murky pool
South China Morning Post June 5, 2006 It was meant to be among the greatest engineering feats of the era. A project to tame the Yangtze River, harnessing its hydro-electric power and […]
Group cautions against debt payment
(June 4, 2006) A group, African Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANE-EJ), has called on the National Assembly to reject a proposal sent by President Olusegun Obasanjo to settle London Club debt at the expense of key development challenges in Nigeria.
Nigeria: beyond debt
(June 4, 2006) The rush to pay off foreign loans has derailed Nigeria’s chance to challenge its odious debts, claims Lagos-based lawyer and commentator Remi Ogunmefun in "Nigeria after debt relief".
Chongqing uses foreign funds to improve environment
(June 2, 2006) Southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality started two projects to improve its urban environment.
Wolfowitz needs to look at corruption of yesterday, not just today
(June 1, 2006) And follow the positive example of Norway: any comprehensive approach to corruption must examine the World Bank’s lending practices of yesterday and cancel debts found to be corrupt and fraudulent.
Hydropower Projects and Companies in Lao PDR
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China’s Three Gorges dam to begin flood control with a bang
(May 31, 2006) The moment of truth for the world’s largest dam will arrive on June 6. The main concrete wall of the Three Gorges dam on the Yangtze River must begin to hold water after a temporary cofferdam is demolished in a series of planned explosions.
In involuntary resettlement for China projects, the World Bank ignores its own guidelines
(May 31, 2006) For some years now, the World Bank has been promoting the People’s Republic of China as a model of “best practice” for the developing world in the contested area of involuntary resettlement. This evaluation has been widely repeated, and most recently has been adopted in several papers commissioned by the World Commission on Dams (WCD http://www.dams.org), a body mandated to conduct an independent review of the “development effectiveness” of big dams and water projects around the globe.
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