As China’s Yarlung Zangbo megadam on the eastern rim of the Tibetan Plateau breaks ground, critics question Beijing’s dangerous penchant for megadams for their own sake. By Three Gorges Probe and Probe International China has formally launched construction of the Yarlung Zangbo Hydropower Project in Tibet, a megaproject poised to become the world’s largest hydropower […]
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The Lower Yarlung Tsangpo Hydropower Project will cause irreparable damage to a world heritage site and must be stopped immediately. By Probe International A transboundary mega-dam planned for the Lower Yarlung Tsangpo region threatens to wreak havoc on the world’s deepest and longest canyon—a rare and invaluable heritage site, and home to more than half […]
By Probe International China’s penchant for megadams is fueled by an extreme and dangerous nationalism in the relentless pursuit of global hydropower dominance for its own sake, according to a new report by the renowned German-based hydrology expert Wang Weiluo. In this richly detailed study of one of China’s greatest vanity projects—the Three Gorges Dam—Wang […]
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Free Tibet to save South Asia
China touts its damming of Tibet’s rivers as a counter to climate change and denies its dam building foreshadows any untoward intentions. But military analysts in both India and China recognize the potential of these dams to devastate India should hostilities break out between them, and the untenable position in which they would place India.