Three Gorges Probe News
10/08/2010 In a move that has infuriated Chinese officials, the Nobel Committee has awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to the jailed dissident writer and famous democracy advocate, Liu Xiaobo. read more » |
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10/03/2010 The water level at the Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest water control project, reached 164.59 meters on Sunday, 10 meters short of its full capacity of 175-meters, said a project official. read more » |
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09/19/2010 At least 1.39 million people have moved out of their homes near the Three Gorges Dam but the transition is not complete as authorities are still trying to find jobs for farmers and others. read more » |
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09/17/2010 NGOs are outraged after confirmation that the world’s largest bank will finance the destructive Gibe 3 hydropower dam. read more » |
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09/17/2010 As Chinese officials look to “green” their image internationally by cleaning up polluting sectors such as manufacturing and power generation, they’re using a very traditional method: the heavy hand of the state. But that heavy hand is backfiring, creating massive blackouts, and ironically, leading to worse pollution. read more » |
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09/15/2010 Hundreds of thousands of farmers and fishermen in northeastern India could lose their livelihoods if government plans to build scores of dams in the remote Himalayan region go ahead, experts and activists warn. read more » |
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09/14/2010 Government officials in China are continuing to harass critics of the country’s infrastructure projects and the political corruption that often plagues these state vanity projects. Earlier this month, officials arrested Xie Chaoping, a former journalist and recent author of a book about the struggles of the more than 400,000 citizens relocated, first in the 1950s and again in 1985, to make way for Sanmenxia dam on the Yellow river. read more » |
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09/10/2010 In the early 20th century, fishers on the Yangtze River regularly snared what may have been the biggest freshwater creature of modern times: the Chinese paddlefish. The behemoth once reached 23 feet in length, a third of that being a paddle-like snout that it used presumably to stir up the river bottom to flush out food. A single paddlefish could feed a village and was especially prized for its caviar. But decades of industrialisation in China’s heartland have sounded a death knell for the king of the Yangtze. The last time one was caught was in 2003, and it hasn’t been seen since. read more » |
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09/09/2010 By 2020 Chinese control of Tibet gives Beijing a commanding position in an increasingly thirsty Asia. read more » |
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09/09/2010 Officials have been warned for years that the Three Gorges reservoir would be seriously and dangerously polluted. They should have addressed the problem long ago. Their failure to take effective action makes them all the more culpable. Probe International is providing a chronology of worries about the contamination of China's Yangtze River and of the dirty waters behind the dam. read more » |
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