A foreign service correspondent for the San Francicso Chronicle quotes Probe International's Patricia Adams in a story linking China's devastating earthquake to speculation that the country's enormous Three Gorges dam "was a factor in causing the killer Sichuan province quake."

Writes Kathleen McLaughlin:

Though no one has directly fingered Three Gorges as the reason for the earthquake, Probe International, a Canadian non-profit that monitors China's dams and their environmental and humanitarian fallout, raises the possibility.

"Whether reservoir-induced seismicity is behind last week's earthquake should be urgently investigated before the Three Gorges reservoir is filled to its maximum height," said Patricia Adams, the group's executive director.

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