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China Banks on Hydropower to Cut Emissions, But at Huge Human Cost
Environment  (tags: environment, China, hydropower, emissions, energy, humans, habitatdestruction )

Cher
- 756 days ago - iht.com
China's choice is to keep building big dams, even as the social and environmental impacts of the projects are increasingly questioned. The Three Gorges Dam is projected as an anchor in a string of hydropower "mega-bases" planned for the middle and upper
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Gail Costic (492)
Monday November 19, 2007, 12:21 pm
Noted with thanks, Cher.
 

Pastor Tim Redfern (526)
Monday November 19, 2007, 12:41 pm
The Three Gorges Dam has done irreparable damage to China.
Not only have 1.3 million+ people been displaced, but entire towns
and villages have been submerged, places where people and their
ancestors had lived for thousands of years. The dam has submerged
Buddhist temples containing priceless, ancient artwork that can now
only been seen by scuba divers. The pollution the dam is causing is
actually to be expected, being that these ARE the Chinese we're talking
about. No way to describe this whole thing without using the word 'cluster'.....
if ya know what I mean.
Thanks, Cher.
noted w/sadness
 

Christian G. (77)
Monday November 19, 2007, 5:24 pm
China sounds like they make a lot of bad choices.
 
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