Three Gorges Dam
China Dam to Force 4m to Relocate
China plans to move at least 4 million people from their homes to ensure 'environmental safety' of Three Gorges Dam, state media reports.
Three Gorges Dam Risk to Environment, Says China
China's showcase hydro-engineering project, the Three Gorges Dam, could become an environmental catastrophe unless remedial action is taken, the state media reported yesterday.
300,000 Extra People to Make Way for Dam Project
The human cost of China's biggest hydroelectric project, the Three Gorges Dam, has risen beyond the government's forecasts, Xinhua news agency revealed this week.
China Protester 'paralysed By Beating'
One of the most vocal opponents of the Three Gorges dam has been left reportedly paralysed by a savage beating after he ignored police warnings not to speak to foreign journalists.
Dam Critic Beaten After Speaking to Foreign Media
One of the most vocal opponents of the Three Gorges dam, which has forced the relocation of more than a million people, has reportedly been left paralysed by a beating after he ignored police warnings not to speak to foreign journalists.
China's 15-year Lesson in How Not to Build a Dam
· Three Gorges opens early but with much controversy · 1 million people displaced and wildlife threatened
After the Flood
The water has risen, 700,000 people have been relocated, and the Three Gorges dam is finally producing electricity. So is it the disaster everyone predicted? By Jonathan Watts
Cracks Appear in Three Gorges Dam
China's approaching flood season will test surface faults which have defied expensive repair work. China says that 80 cracks have appeared in the Three Gorges dam, only days after the huge reservoir behind it was filled for the first time.
Waters rise behind huge Chinese dam
China began filling the reservoir of the Three Gorges dam yesterday in the next stage of a project affecting the lives of hundreds of millions of people.
Seismic hazard threatens Yangtze project
Even before the huge reservoir behind China's controversial Three Gorges Dam begins to fill up this weekend a rescue operation is being launched further upstream to save the reservoir from being choked by deadly silt.
Three Gorges Project Plugs Mighty Yangtze River
The natural flow of the Yangtze river was brought to a halt yesterday as engineers at the Three Gorges dam, under construction in central China, closed a crucial section. A diversion canal, which had allowed the river to flow freely around the dam as it was being constructed, was finally...
Dam Makes 180,000 Jobless
More than 180,000 Chinese workers and farmers will lose their jobs this year because of the Three Gorges dam project, officials revealed. More than 100,000 are being laid off from industries being shut down to avoid pollution of the huge new reservoir on the Yangtze river in central China...
Yangtze Dam Workers Race Against Time
The great rush is on to meet next year's June deadline when the vast reservoir of the Three Gorges Dam, 300 miles downstream from Fuling, begins to fill.
Industrial waste will pour into China dam
China's controversial Three Gorges dam may turn the Yangtze river upstream into a 400 mile-long polluted sewer, according to evidence emerging as the project reaches a critical new stage. More than a billion tonnes of waste water is spewed out annually from the city of Chongqing, which...
The human cost of China's biggest hydroelectric project, the Three Gorges Dam, has risen beyond the government's forecasts, Xinhua news agency revealed this week.
China Protester 'paralysed By Beating'
One of the most vocal opponents of the Three Gorges dam has been left reportedly paralysed by a savage beating after he ignored police warnings not to speak to foreign journalists.
Dam Critic Beaten After Speaking to Foreign Media
One of the most vocal opponents of the Three Gorges dam, which has forced the relocation of more than a million people, has reportedly been left paralysed by a beating after he ignored police warnings not to speak to foreign journalists.
China's 15-year Lesson in How Not to Build a Dam
· Three Gorges opens early but with much controversy · 1 million people displaced and wildlife threatened
After the Flood
The water has risen, 700,000 people have been relocated, and the Three Gorges dam is finally producing electricity. So is it the disaster everyone predicted? By Jonathan Watts
Cracks Appear in Three Gorges Dam
China's approaching flood season will test surface faults which have defied expensive repair work. China says that 80 cracks have appeared in the Three Gorges dam, only days after the huge reservoir behind it was filled for the first time.
Waters rise behind huge Chinese dam
China began filling the reservoir of the Three Gorges dam yesterday in the next stage of a project affecting the lives of hundreds of millions of people.
Seismic hazard threatens Yangtze project
Even before the huge reservoir behind China's controversial Three Gorges Dam begins to fill up this weekend a rescue operation is being launched further upstream to save the reservoir from being choked by deadly silt.
Three Gorges Project Plugs Mighty Yangtze River
The natural flow of the Yangtze river was brought to a halt yesterday as engineers at the Three Gorges dam, under construction in central China, closed a crucial section. A diversion canal, which had allowed the river to flow freely around the dam as it was being constructed, was finally...
Dam Makes 180,000 Jobless
More than 180,000 Chinese workers and farmers will lose their jobs this year because of the Three Gorges dam project, officials revealed. More than 100,000 are being laid off from industries being shut down to avoid pollution of the huge new reservoir on the Yangtze river in central China...
Yangtze Dam Workers Race Against Time
The great rush is on to meet next year's June deadline when the vast reservoir of the Three Gorges Dam, 300 miles downstream from Fuling, begins to fill.
Industrial waste will pour into China dam
China's controversial Three Gorges dam may turn the Yangtze river upstream into a 400 mile-long polluted sewer, according to evidence emerging as the project reaches a critical new stage. More than a billion tonnes of waste water is spewed out annually from the city of Chongqing, which...