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From The Times
September 27, 2007
Three Gorges Dam is a disaster in the making, China admits
Jane Macartney in Beijing
It was hailed as one of the engineering feats of the 20th century. Now
the Three Gorges Dam across China's mighty Yangtze River threatens to
become an environmental catastrophe.
In an unprecedented admission of blame, Communist Party officials gave
a stark warning yesterday of impending disaster in the vast area
around the dam if preventive measures are not urgently introduced.
For more than a decade China has promoted the world's biggest
hydro-electric project as the best way to end centuries of floods
along the basin of the Yangtze and to provide energy to fuel the
country's economic boom.
The Government ignored critics who claimed that the Three Gorges,
first proposed nearly a century ago and immortalised in a poem by Mao
Zedong, was an ecological disaster waiting to happen.
Now those same officials who oversaw construction of the £13 billion
dam admit that surrounding areas are paying a heavy, and potentially
calamitous, environmental cost. Hundreds of thousands of people may
have to be moved. A total of 1.3 million have been displaced by the
dam already.
A report issued by the Xinhua news agency, mouthpiece for the
Government, said: "There exist many ecological and environmental
problems concerning the Three Gorges Dam. If no preventive measures
are taken, the project could lead to catastrophe."
A government forum listed a host of threats such as conflicts over
land shortages, ecological deterioration as a result of irrational
development and, especially, erosion and landslides on steep hills
around the dam. Other authorities have already raised concerns over
algae bloom downstream from the Three Gorges and a deterioration in
aquatic life.
Wang Xiaofeng, director of the administrative office in charge of
building the dam, said that it was time to face up to the
environmental consequences of a project hailed as an achievement to
rival the Great Wall.
He said: "We absolutely cannot relax our guard against ecological and
environmental security problems sparked by the Three Gorges project.
We cannot win passing economic prosperity at the cost of the
environment."
He revealed that the Prime Minister, Wen Jiabao, had discussed the
problems surrounding the dam during a Cabinet meeting this year.
The timing of yesterday's warning is significant, coming just two
weeks before the Communist Party holds a five-yearly congress at which
it will cement policy and anoint a new generation of leaders. One
political analyst said: "It is a way for President Hu Jintao to
distance himself [from the Three Gorges project] further. He stayed
away from the completion ceremonies a year ago and this underlines
that his administration does not want to be associated with the Three
Gorges." The project to create a dam producing more than 18,000MW of
power - 20 times more than the Hoo-ver Dam in America - has been
dogged by controversy. In 1989 one vice-premier ordered a five-year
moratorium on any discussion about the dam, but that was ignored when
conservatives gained power after the Tiananmen Square crackdown in the
same year. In 1992 the virtually toothless National People's Congress,
or parliament, approved the dam - but with one third of deputies
voting "no" or abstaining.
Dai Qing, an environmental activist, has been the most vocal opponent
of the Three Gorges. She said: "We have never stopped talking about
the problems but our voice was too weak. The system does not listen to
the voices of civic activists or dissidents. But now, at last, they
are starting to hear."
One of the most worrying consequences of the project has been the
sharp increase in landslides around the dam. Studies by geologists
have shown that the water seeping out of the reservoir and the huge
pressure changes are weakening the banks.
One official said that the shore of the reservoir had collapsed in 91
places and a total of 36 kilometres (22 miles) had already caved in.
Landslides have produced waves as high as 50 metres (165ft). In July a
mountain along a tributary collapsed, dragging 13 farmers to their
deaths and drowning 11 fishermen.
Ms Dai told The Times: "The Government knows it has made a mistake.
Now they are afraid that the catastrophe that they cannot prevent will
spark civil unrest. So they want to go public before the troubles
start."
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