China says troops rush to plug dangerous cracks in dam
May 14, 2008
Over 2000 Chinese soldiers are involved in the repair efforts to prevent a dam collapse that would swamp the nearby city of Duijiangyan, endangering its 600,000 residents. [Full story]
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China's deadly earthquake: Was the Three Gorges reservoir a trigger?
May 14, 2008
Did the filling of the massive Three Gorges reservoir trigger seismic activity in what has always been an earthquake-prone region? [Full story]
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Chinese dams compromised by earthquake; authorities on alert
May 14, 2008
In the wake of China's massive earthquake, and amidst the desperate recovery effort, Chinese authorities have still more to worry about as damage to existing dams becomes evident. [Full story]
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Landslide hits town near China's Three Gorges dam
April 20, 2008
Emergency workers are still trying to rescue almost 200 people from a village that was nearly inundated by a massive landslide near the Three Gorges dam. [Full story]
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Chongqing: A tale of two cities
April 19, 2008
The Toronto Star highlights Chongqing, the world's fastest growing metropolis of 32 million at the upper end of the Three Gorges reservoir. [Full story]
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China's Three Gorges dam: An environmental catastrophe?
April 08, 2008
By 2009, the dam's water level is set to be raised to its full 175-metre capacity and then lowered about 30 metres during flood season. That increase in water pressure, in water fluctuation and in land covered by the reservoir makes for a "very large possibility" that the incidents of landslides and earthquakes will worsen, reports Scientific American. [Full story]
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THREE GORGES ORAL HISTORY SERIES: Absence of Justice: Lu Chengming's Struggle for Compensation
March 18, 2008
Enterprising and dedicated Party member Lu Chengming spends eight years toiling as a labourer and saves enough money to start a profitable hotel business. When he tries to contest the amount of his meagre Three Gorges dam resettlement compensation, including remuneration for his wharf, he is beaten by a high-ranking government official and his hotel and home are razed to the ground.
Chinese journalist Dai Qing and Three Gorges Probe proudly present "The Absence of Justice: Lu Chengming's Struggle for Compensation" by Liu Bai, the second in a series of oral histories brought to you from the Three Gorges region. [Full story]
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China’s environmental regulator urges crackdown on Three Gorges polluters
March 12, 2008
China’s State Environmental Protection Agency has urged citizens and corporations to take legal action if threatened by water pollution in the Three Gorges dam area. [Full story]
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Financial Times: Three Gorges dam repeats “stupid mistake”
March 11, 2008
Former communist party chief An Qingyuan is quoted saying the Sanmenxia dam on the Yellow River was a “stupid mistake” that has brought “severe disasters to the people living near the river.” He and others warn that Sanmenxia sets a disastrous precedent for the much larger Three Gorges project. [Full story]
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British insurance broker awarded Three Gorges contract
March 11, 2008
A London-based insurance broker, Willis Group Holdings, has been awarded a two-year contract as the insurance consultant for the Three Gorges project. [Full story]
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Olympics water diversion scheme starts this month
March 11, 2008
To ensure Beijing has enough water for the Olympic games this August, about 300 million cubic metres of water will be diverted from drought-stricken Hebei province starting the end of this month. [Full story]
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Olympics water diversion scheme threatens millions
March 11, 2008
Former communist party chief An Qingyuan told FT that the diversion of water to Beijing for the Olympics and for big hydropower projects threatens the lives of millions of peasant farmers in China’s north-western provinces. [Full story]
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Fragile Three Gorges: Caijing magazine reports
February 20, 2008
Chief engineer of the Three Gorges Reservoir Area Disaster Control Headquarters says the number of landslides and collapses in the dam's reservoir area have nearly doubled between 2001 and 2003, reports Caijing magazine. [Full story]
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Three Gorges transmission lines down amid power shortages
February 20, 2008
Heavy snowstorms felled three power transmission towers along a majorline of the Three Gorges dam, disrupting a link in central China's transmission system, Xinhua news agency reported last month. [Full story]
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Up the Yangtze gets rave review from Dai Qing
February 14, 2008
Probe International Fellow Dai Qing lauds Canadian documentary Up the Yangtze for revealing the human cost of the Three Gorges dam. [Full story]
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Probe International asks Canadian government to provide legal aid to Three Gorges dam victims
February 13, 2008
Read all correspondence. [Full story]
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Canadian government responds to Probe International's recommendation that it must take responsibility for role in disastrous Three Gorges project
February 06, 2008
Last November, Probe International called for the Canadian government to "make amends for failing to warn the Chinese government that the project's environmental risks would ultimately threaten the lives, property, and economic future of millions of people living along the Yangtze river." Read the orginal letter and the government's response. [Full story]
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Beijing Olympic water scheme drains parched farmers
January 23, 2008
A frantic '100-day battle' is underway to complete a 300-kilometre network of canals and pipes that will take water from the parched countryside of Hebei province to Beijing, for its 'green' Olympic games in August. Reporting from Baoding city, Hebei province, Reuters' Beijing correspondent Chris Buckley captures the conflict provoked by the Olympic plan to show off Beijing as a green, leafy city with drinkable tap water and sparkling fountains by draining neighbouring provinces that are suffering from a decade-long drought. [Full story]
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EDITORIAL: As Three Gorges ramps up, operating conflicts will intensify
January 23, 2008
China’s Three Gorges dam operator plans to fill the Three Gorges reservoir to capacity this year despite the risk of more landslides and worsening environmental problems along the Yangtze, the country’s most important river. [Full story]
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Three Gorges film releases
January 23, 2008
Award-winning documentary Up the Yangtze by Canadian filmmaker Yung Chang is a heart-wrenching protrayal of a family affected by the Three Gorges dam.
Probe International is co-sponsoring the release of Up the Yangtze at the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival on February 3rd. [Full story]
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