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DAMMING TIBET TO SAVE CHINA: HYDROPOWER’S COMING GOLDEN DECADE

Gabriel Lafitte, January 2011 [caption id="attachment_354" align="alignright" width="300" caption="The Three Gorges dam, located in Hubei province, China, is considered the largest hydroelectric dam and the largest generator of electricity in the world since 2006"][/caption] China’s 12th Five-Year Plan, for 2011 through 2015, is about to become public. The ongoing massive infrastructure investments typical of a centrally planned economy will persist, and perhaps even accelerate, as China continues to finance its infrastructure construction by borrowing from future generations. China’s growth remains state-driven, and tightly focused on creating the necessary preconditions for the elite to get even richer, with the state picking up the tab ...

Human Error Behind Drugchu Mudslide Tragedy

[caption id="attachment_341" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Drugchu Midslide"][/caption] Drugchu exploited its mountains, its water and its rivers and, in return, suffered a powerful mudslide | Source: Tibet.net DHARAMSHALA: The rampant exploitation of natural resources increased the risk and impact of last year's powerful mudslide disaster in Tibet's Drugchu region which killed thousands of ordinary people, a top Chinese researcher wrote in an article posted in China Dialogue. Over 1,239 people were killed and more than 505 went missing in the disaster. Jiang Gaoming, the chief researcher at the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Botany, listed three major factors – indiscriminate deforestation and building of hydropower ...

New Chinese Dam Project Fuels Ethnic Conflict in Sudan

01/20/2011 By: Peter Bosshard [caption id="attachment_349" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Protest against the Kajbar Dam in Sudan"][/caption] Dams have impoverished tens of thousands of people and triggered serious human rights violations in Sudan. Now Chinese companies have won contracts to build three more hydropower projects in the country. Of particular concerns are plans to dam the Nile near Kajbar, on the lands of ancient Nubia. This project has already caused massive human rights abuses. Affected people are strongly opposed to it, and have raised the specter of a second Darfur conflict. The Sudanese government plans to transform the Nile, the only stretch of fertile land north ...

A New Era For Tibet’s Rivers

[caption id="attachment_351" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Yarlung Tsangpo River, Tibet"][/caption] A new era for Tibet’s rivers ChinaDialogue Latest Articles Jiang Yannan, He Haining Construction of a massive dam on the Yarlung Zangbo marks a turning point for Tibet, write He Haining and Jiang Yannan. A development boom is coming. The rushing waters of the Yarlung Zangbo, the last of China’s great rivers to remain undammed, will soon be history. On November 12 last year, the builders of the Zangmu Hydropower Station announced the successful damming of the river – the first public announcement on a matter that, until now, has been kept under wraps. The Zangmu hydroelectric ...

Rinsing Away the Failures of Hydropower

By staff reporter Liu Hongqiao 05.24.2012 15:17

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Climate scepticism threatens people, planet – IPCC chief

Source: Alertnet // Thin Lei Win

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Mineral shortages looming in China

23 April 2012
Commodity Online
Commodity Online India Limited
BEIJING, April 23 — China is reportedly running out of 11 critical minerals and will face a serious shortage of them by 2020 says Xu Shaoshi Minister of Land and Resources.

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DAMMING TIBET TO SAVE CHINA: HYDROPOWER’S COMING GOLDEN DECADE

Human Error Behind Drugchu Mudslide Tragedy

New Chinese Dam Project Fuels Ethnic Conflict in Sudan

A New Era For Tibet’s Rivers

Rinsing Away the Failures of Hydropower

Climate scepticism threatens people, planet – IPCC chief

Mineral shortages looming in China

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