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  Damming the Three Gorges: What Dam Builders Don't Want You to Know.
  by Probe International's Margaret Barber and Gráinne Ryder
  March 30, 2005
   
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A comprehensive critique of the Three Gorges Water Control Project Feasibility Study. Nine independent experts express their professional outrage at a Canadian government-financed study that recommends building the Three Gorges dam in China, which would require the forcible relocation of one million people and the destruction of one of the world's most magnificent canyons. The findings prompted Probe International to file a formal complaint with the professional engineering associations against Canadian engineering firms for professional misconduct, negligence, and incompetence.

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