(May 2, 2006) China’s General Administration of the Environment has issued a notice declaring that it alone will make public environmentally damaging accidents and related information.
No political motive in Lavalin case: Chandy
(March 2, 2006) Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy has denied a charge that the UDF government had referred the controversial SNC-Lavalin-Kerala State Electricity Board deal to the CBI to leverage political mileage in the coming assembly polls.
How the Three Gorges project was funded
(May 1, 2006) Where did the money come from to build the dam? For a start, all of China’s power consumers were forced to pay in advance for Three Gorges electricity, even though many will never use it.
Construction industry journal calls dam a dinosaur
Three Gorges Probe March 1, 2006 In a survey of China’s booming infrastructure sector, the industry journal International Construction has highlighted some of the problems surrounding the Three Gorges dam project: "Construction […]
Funds needed to prevent 'sewage lake'
China’s top planning agency is appealing to Beijing for extra funds to prevent the planned Three Gorges reservoir from becoming a huge sewage lake.
Team Canada assists China’s power monopolists
China’s old guard has decided to make its stand for central rule in the power sector and it has found an important Western ally: Canada.
Nu River: Fact box
(April 25, 2006) Background information on the plans to dam the Nu River, one of only two major rivers in China unfragmented by dams.
Nu River champion wins prestigious environmental award
(April 25, 2006) Yu Xiaogang, who has won a 2006 Goldman Environmental Prize, led a group of Nu valley farmers on a field trip two years ago to visit the Manwan dam on the Lancang (Mekong) River. The visitors were shocked at the destitution they found.
Lesotho: NGO calls for audit of dam construction tenders
(April 25, 2006) Following allegations of corruption, a local NGO has appealed for an audit of the tenders allocated in the Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP), the world’s largest water transfer operation.
Africa Action confronts World Bank and IMF on health impact, corruption
(April 22, 2006) Ahead of this weekend’s Spring meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF), Africa Action and allied organizations today staged a theatrical "health inspection" of these institutions, finding them to be a public health hazard in Africa and other impoverished regions.
Water diversion ‘risks pollution’
(April 19, 2006) Environmental experts have released a report warning that massive water diversion project will worsen pollution in the Han River in central China and threaten the quality of drinking water for millions of residents in Wuhan, Hubei province.
Clean-up of river a sham – academic
(April 19, 2006) A widely publicised effort to clean up the Huai River has failed, according to a whistle-blowing official who contradicted glowing reports published in the People’s Daily.
Lesotho dismisses dam appeal
(April 14, 2006) Italy’s biggest construction company Impregilo has lost an appeal to challenge the right of the high court in Lesotho to try it for bribing officials to win a major dam contract there.
At World Bank, a pledge to focus on corruption
(April 13, 2006) Paul Wolfowitz, president of the World Bank, pledged Tuesday to push the fight against corruption to the center of the bank’s global development work in a speech outlining a comprehensive and detailed anti-corruption agenda.
China’s PM calls for action to protect environment: Zhu
(April 12, 2006) Chinese Prime Minister Zhu Rongji says a growing water shortage is among main problems.
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