Chinese Dam Projects Criticized for Their Human Costs
Du Bin for The New York Times
The Three Gorges Dam is projected as an anchor in a string of hydropower “mega-bases” planned for the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River.
By JIM YARDLEY
Published: November 19, 2007
JIANMIN VILLAGE, China — Last year, Chinese officials celebrated the completion of the Three Gorges Dam by releasing a list of 10 world records. As in: The Three Gorges is the world’s biggest dam, biggest power plant and biggest consumer of dirt, stone, concrete and steel. Ever. Even the project’s official tally of 1.13 million displaced people made the list as record No. 10.
Choking on Growth
This is the fourth in a series of articles and multimedia examining the human toll, global impact and political challenge of China's epic pollution crisis.
Video: Living With the Dam
Interactive Graphic: Counting the Displaced
Expert Roundtable: Submit a Question
Living in Fear, Tan Zhenyou said soil erosion and tremors had caused the cracks in her home in Pinggao, China, upriver from the Three Gorges Dam.
Today, the Communist Party is hoping the dam does not become China’s biggest folly. In recent weeks, Chinese officials have admitted that the dam was spawning environmental problems like water pollution and landslides that could become severe. Equally startling, officials want to begin a new relocation program that would be bigger than the first
I'll refer you to http://morganmghee.blogspot.com/2008/01/tibet-leader-awarded-top-us-medal.html. If only to remember bad doesn't cancel out good.....
Monday November 19, 2007 - 05:30pm (PST)
332 Landslide
January 18, 2008
No, Really?
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
The Center for Public Integrity
The 380,000-plus-word database presented here allows, for the first time, the Iraq-related public pronouncements of top Bush administration officials to be tracked on a day-by-day basis against their private assessments and the actual “ground truth” as it is now known. Throughout the database, passages containing false statements by the top Bush administration officials are highlighted in yellow. The 935 false statements in the database may also be accessed by selecting the “False Statements” option from the “Subject” pull-down menu and may be displayed within selected date ranges using the selection tool below. Searches may also be limited by person or subject, or both, by using the appropriate selections from the pull-down menus.
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment