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Are Dams Triggering China's Earthquakes?

Patricia Adams | Posted 04.29.2013 | Canada
Read More: Dams, China Earthquake, Reservoir-Induced-Seismicity, China Politics, Sichuan Quake, Sichuan Earthquake, China Economy, China Protests, Canada News
Patricia Adams

The Chinese government would like to believe that both earthquakes were the result of the natural movement of the earth's crust -- an "Act of God." But, mounting scientific evidence suggests that the Wenchuan earthquake was more likely a man-made disaster, triggered by the nearby Zipingpu hydro power dam.

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Cyberwar and Secrecy Threaten China's Dams

Patricia Adams | Posted 05.13.2013 | Canada
Read More: Spyware, Three Gorges, Dams, Siemens, Stuxnet, Cybersecurity, Strategic Target, China, Cyberwar, Canada News
Patricia Adams

When China's top generals warned against building the Three Gorges Dam in the 1980s, fearing it would become a "strategic target" for China's enemies,...

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China's New Mega-Dam is a Mega-Problem

Patricia Adams | Posted 09.11.2012 | Canada Business
Read More: Three Gorges, Dams, Power, China, Hydropower China, China Three Gorges, Three Gorges China, China Hydropower, China Dam, Dam China, Canada Business News
Patricia Adams

Three Gorges dam may now be declared finished, but never-ending expenditures to treat the problems it has caused will continue to remind Chinese citizens that the world's largest dam may also be the world's largest albatross.

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Chinese Dams Will Damn the Country

Patricia Adams | Posted 06.12.2012 | Canada Politics
Read More: Reservoir-Induced Seismicity, Dam Collapse, Earthquake, Tsunami, Dams, China, Chinese Dams, Earthquakes, Chinese Government, Tibetan Plateau, Canada Politics News
Patricia Adams

Chinese citizens are becoming increasingly vociferous in their outrage over lives risked, and lost, to shoddy standards, most recently in the country's food and high-speed rail industry. Should a dam suffer catastrophic dam collapse, that anger could quickly spill over to the hydropower industry for threatening ordinary citizens' lives.

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