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Chinese officials staged a sudden about-face, acknowledging for the first time that the massive hydroelectric dam, sandwiched between breathtaking cliffs on the Yangtze River in central China,...
Three Gorges Dam - Hydroelectricity, Environmental Impact, Controversy: First discussed in the 1920s by Chinese Nationalist Party leaders, the idea for the Three Gorges Dam was given new impetus in 1953 when Chinese leader Mao Zedong ordered feasibility studies of a number of sites.
It is true that since the Three Gorges reservoir has been filled, there has been no repeat of the severe flooding in 1998 which killed more than 3,700 people and left 15 million homeless. However, the dam’s main role in flood prevention still remains a source of controversy.
While the construction of the Three Gorges Dam was an engineering feat, it has also been fraught with controversy: construction of the dam caused the displacement of at least 1.3 million people and the destruction of natural features and countless rare architectural and archaeological sites.
The dam’s operator, China Three Gorges Corporation, told China’s state news agency Xinhua that the dam has intercepted 18.2 billion cubic meters of potential floodwater.
One of the biggest controversies surrounding the Three Gorges Dam is the amount of damage the dam does to the environment. Estimates state that 70% of China’s freshwater is...
China has finally admitted that all is not rosy with its Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest hydroelectric power project. The dam is plagued by problems that need to be resolved urgently, the...
The Three Gorges Dam (simplified Chinese: 三峡大坝; traditional Chinese: 三峽大壩; pinyin: Sānxiá Dàbà) is a hydroelectric gravity dam that spans the Yangtze River near Sandouping in Yiling District, Yichang, Hubei province, central China, downstream of the Three Gorges.
The present report focuses upon two main issues of concern: first, the Chinese government's continuing suppression of dissenting viewpoints on the Three Gorges dam including a decades-long tight restriction on public information and debate, extending most recently to the actual arrests of political activists opposed to the dam's construction ...
Concerns about the dam include an array of environmental impacts, the forced relocation of over a million residents, initiation of large landslides and earthquakes by the rising reservoir, and flooding of important historic and cultural sites in the gorge upstream of the dam.