(November 12, 2007) Three Gorges Probe decodes China’s latest urban and rural development plans for the Three Gorges reservoir region.
Residents fear China’s Three Gorges Dam
(November 6, 2007) Several times this year, Tan Mingzhu had the terrible feeling her home in central China was about to collapse in on her family.
One dam thing after another
(November 1, 2007) Skeptics about the world’s biggest hydroelectric dam are being vindicated as Chinese officials are becoming more worried about landslides and pollution in the Three Gorges reservoir and its tributaries.
The Three Gorges: a wiser approach
(October 23, 2007) China’s central government recently warned of a potential ecological catastrophe caused by the huge Three Gorges dam, once hailed as the country’s greatest undertaking in 1,000 years. Jianqiang Liu reports on how views of the project have changed.
China counts cost of Three Gorges Dam
(October 19, 2007) China’s official news agency Xinhua reported last month that disaster could strike the Three Gorges dam region unless key problems — including landslides and bank erosion — are solved. Probe International’s executive director, Patricia Adams, and International Fellow, Dai Qing, assess the change in government rhetoric after years of assurances the dam is environmentally benign.
Millions forced out by China dam
(October 12, 2007) At least four million people are to be moved from the area around China’s Three Gorges Dam amid warnings of an "environmental catastrophe".
4 million more people to be moved from gorges area
(October 12, 2007) At least 4 million people from the Three Gorges Reservoir area are to be relocated to cities in the next 10 to 15 years, Chongqing Municipality Vice-Mayor Yu Yuanmu said.
Three Gorges project authority: a thief crying stop thief
(October 5, 2007) Probe International Fellow Dai Qing comments on China’s admission that the Three Gorges dam could cause environmental catastrophe.
China warns of Three Gorges catastrophe while local officials plan second mass resettlement, tourism development
(October 2, 2007) One week before Chinese officials warned of environmental ‘catastrophe’ from the Three Gorges dam, municipal officials announced plans to "safeguard" the environment and develop tourism in the Three Gorges reservoir area by moving another million people.
China warns of ‘catastrophe’ from gigantic dam
(September 26, 2007) Chinese officials and experts have admitted the Three Gorges Dam project has caused an array of ecological ills, including more frequent landslides and pollution, and if preventive measures are not taken, there could be an environmental "catastrophe"
Three gorges dam exacts its toll
(August 29, 2007) The Three Gorges Dam project is suffering from unforeseen problems including landslides and water pollution, raising new doubts about a project that has come to symbolize the country’s effort to control its environment.
In China, New Risks Emerge At Giant Three Gorges Dam
(August 29, 2007) China’s vaunted engineering marvel, the Three Gorges Dam, drew fierce criticism during its construction for uprooting more than a million people and manhandling the Yangtze River basin. Now, a year after completion, the project has new problems — including landslides, water pollution and suggestions that the dam could contribute to the very flooding it was built to prevent.
Eight people missing in central China Landslide
(June 17, 2007) Eight farmers are missing while ten others were rescued after a massive landslide in central China’s Hubei province, an official said on Sunday.
More residents evacuated after fresh landslide in China
(May 17, 2007) More than 100 residents have been evacuated after a fresh landslide occurred in another village of central China’s Hubei Province on Wednesday, local sources said.
Residents evacuated after massive landslides in China
(May 14, 2007) All the 658 residents living near a landslide area in central China’s Hubei Province had been evacuated by Monday afternoon.
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