(October 8, 1999) Landslides destroyed hundreds of homes in the Three Gorges dam area, according to a September 3, 1999, report inHua Xia Wen Zha (HXWZ), a Chinese-language Internet magazine based in the United States.
Letter to Pierre Pettigrew: PI objections to the Gowling review of EDC
(October 8, 1999) Probe International believes that the Gowlings report is biased in favour of those who wish to maintain EDC’s privileged status.
Three Gorges resettlement in chaos, awaiting central government directives
(October 8, 1999) A recent fact-finding trip to the Three Gorges area reveals that the resettlement of up to two million people is in chaos.
Power to the people could cost
(October 7, 1999) Even if the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (Egat) needed the power, the massive Nam Theun 2 hydro dam can’t compete with Thailand’s new private power producers, writes PI’s Grainne Ryder.
World Bank sends inspection team to China to probe dam project
(October 6, 1999) The World Bank has sent a team of experts to China to evaluate criticisms of a vast dam and irrigation project it wants to support, a Bank official said here Tuesday.
Pressure from China results in passage of controversial project
(October 6, 1999) Canada abstains during World Bank vote
China resettlement plan starts debate over Tibetan culture
(October 6, 1999) For a number of years, the People’s Republic of China has been accused of following a policy designed to change the culture of Tibet by overwhelming the indigenous population with massive numbers of ethnic Chinese settlers.
“Model” Laotian dam an economic and environmental failure
(October 1, 1999) New report exposes Nordic investors’ double standards on property rights and environmental protection
The Theun-Hinboun public-private partnership: Notes- part 3 of 3
(October 1, 1999)
The Theun-Hinboun public-private partnership- part 2 of 3
Monitoring equipment to ensure safe demolition of cofferdam
Workers have begun to install monitoring equipment that will measure the impact of the huge explosion planned for Tuesday aimed at demolishing the last cofferdam built for the construction of the Three Gorges dam.
World Bank funding criticised
(October 1, 1999) A US$40M loan to China, to help fund an US$80M water project in Tibet, has been condemned by Tibet Right groups, human rights activists, Tibet’s government in exile and environmental lobby groups.
Fall 1999 Campaign Letter
In 1991, we proposed a way out of the Third World debt crisis. Now it’s happening.
The Theun-Hinboun public-private partnership- part 1 of 3
(October 1, 1999) A 3-part critique of the Asian Development Bank’s model hydropower Venture in Lao PDR.
China’s Three Gorges
(October 1, 1999) China’s biggest construction project since the Great Wall generates controversy at home and abroad.
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