Has anyone consider the fact that the trash accumulating along the Yangtze will eventually flow down stream and into the Hydro-Turbines causing damage?
Maybe even massive and expensive damage.
Two million Chinese are displaced by the construction of the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze RiverTo China’s leaders, the Three Gorges Dam is the most significant engineering feat since the construction of the Great Wall, but to its critics worldwide, it is a social and environmental disaster. As the debate rages on, GREAT WALL ACROSS THE YANGTZE tells the complex story of extraordinary sacrifice in the face of modernization. The film takes viewers to the stunning Three Gorges region, ground zero for China’s quest to build the world’s largest hydroelectric power plant. Shooting without government authorization, filmmaker Ellen Perry penetrates the heartland of China to uncover the unique heritage and beauty of this great river and to understand the irreversible changes the dam brings. She examines the government’s case for the massive dam before investigating the monumental impact it will have on the people, the environment and the priceless archeological sites of the region. Countless species are threatened, and two million people are forced to leave their homes forever. Great Wall Across the Yangtze
Release Year: 2008 Duration: 60 min Availability:
Related: Environment, History, International, Politics, ITVS, PBS To China’s leaders, the Three Gorges Dam is the most significant engineering feat since the construction of the Great Wall, but to its critics worldwide, it is a social and environmental disaster. As the debate rages on, GREAT WALL ACROSS THE YANGTZE tells the complex story of extraordinary sacrifice in the face of modernization. The film takes viewers to the stunning Three Gorges region, ground zero for China’s quest to build the world’s largest hydroelectric power plant. Shooting without government authorization, filmmaker Ellen Perry penetrates the heartland of China to uncover the unique heritage and beauty of this great river and to understand the irreversible changes the dam brings. She examines the government’s case for the massive dam before investigating the monumental impact it will have on the people, the environment and the priceless archeological sites of the region. Countless species are threatened, and two million people are forced to leave their homes forever. Support Your Local PBS Station
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Comments Posted 10/12/09 by THULINB1
Has anyone consider the fact that the trash accumulating along the Yangtze will eventually flow down stream and into the Hydro-Turbines causing damage? Maybe even massive and expensive damage. Posted 04/24/09 by Anton
Perhaps it will perform as hoped, assuming success in meeting the technical unknowns. Unknowns of vast mortal consequence to which the experimental answers play loose with lives, vast environmental regions, and massive economic investment. The disregard for archeological knowledge to be lost is a fateful short sight. Decentralized hydroelectric damming and upgrading in existing dams would provide much in water reservation and power while also dispersing risks over a multiplicity of safeguarding redundancies; To wit, in the redundant, smaller, technologically safer and usefully decentralized existence of many smaller dams. The centralization of resources is a tendency in authority centralized societies. It reinforces a hierarchical leadership’s hold on power by allowing it to control access according to the support of it’s continued rule. This is irrelevant to whether the government claims it’s capitalist or socialist. If it’s rulers are entrenched and it’s politics undemocratic it resists decentralization generally. The Three Gorges Dam is to become a monument to this phenomenon. Hopefully the damage it does, as terrible as it is, will not make it more of a monumental curse than is already expected. Posted 02/01/09 by Bokyeh
This is what resource management is all about. Many more millions of poeple would benefit from this project, far more than the number of people displaced. These people would have to move when poverty hit them anyway. |
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