(May 7, 2006) Construction of China’s largest water diversion project expected to begin next year, channeling water from the Yangtze River for thirsty people and scorched lands to the north.
Graft found in China’s power monopoly
(May 7, 2006) Investigators have uncovered a web of corruption within China’s power monopoly.
World Bank’s war on corruption
(March 7, 2006) "Corruption is the biggest threat to democracy since communism," says World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz, who plans to make reducing graft in the countries where the bank does business a priority.
Saatchi hired to help Kenya’s ‘war on corruption’
(March 7, 2006) The Kenyan government has hired the Saatchi and Saatchi advertising agency to handle its nationwide anti-corruption campaign.
Water diversion project bill sees 80% rise
(May 4, 2006) Officials in charge of China’s massive south-north water diversion scheme have had to revise the project’s first phase budget up by around 80 percent.
Three Gorges revisited
(May 3, 2006) Sichuan geologist Fan Xiao travels to the Three Gorges reservoir area, and reports on aspects of the project that continue to trouble Chinese experts.
Canadian power company gets failing grade from Belizeans
(May 2, 2006) In its report card released today, the Belize Institute of Environmental Law and Policy gave
Canadian power giant, Fortis, a failing grade.
Now there’s only one place to go for environmental-accident info
(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.
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