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| 300,000 extra people to make way for Three Gorges Dam | |
| 2006-10-04 | |
| 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. An extra 300,000 people will have to be relocated, bringing the total to 1.4 million. "Considering the ecological capacity of the reservoir areas, the need for the migrants to prosper and the pursuit of harmonious development, the government considers it suitable to increase the number of people being resettled," said Pu Haiqing, head of the dam's construction committee. Completion of the dam is due in May.
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| Posted by:Steve White |
| #3 expect a post from the Flyash Liberation Army in 5...4...3... |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-10-04 21:16 |
| #2 Given China's ecological record, the river could also to go up in smoke like the river that caught fire in Ohio some decades ago (Cuyahoga? or Maumee?). Or maybe suffer a cyanide spill. Anybody taking bets on how much the commisars got in graft money for ignoring crummy materials? |
| Posted by: mom 2006-10-04 21:10 |
| #1 I think about all the history China has lost because of this and it makes me sad. On the other hand I have to wonder when the dam breaks how much of the "Artifacts" that became unburied will come rushing down the river. If we're lucky some hairpins might impale a Chinese Colonel or two. |
| Posted by: Charles 2006-10-04 07:55 |