Damming The Three Gorges
What Dam Builders Don't Want You To Know
A Critique of the Three Gorges
Water Control Project Feasibility Study
Edited By Margaret Barber & Gráinne Ryder
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A comprehensive critique of the Three Gorges
Water Control Project Feasibility Study. Nine independent experts express
their professional outrage at a Canadian government-financed study that
recommends building the Three Gorges dam in China, which would require
the forcible relocation of one million people and the destruction of
one of the world's most magnificent canyons. The findings prompted Probe
International to file a formal complaint with the professional engineering
associations against Canadian engineering firms for professional misconduct,
negligence, and incompetence. |
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Acknowledgements
About the Contributors
Foreword to 1st Edition
Foreword to 2nd Edition
Editors’ Note to 2nd Edition
Introduction
Chapter 1. Damming the Three Gorges: 1920 - 1993
Chapter 2. What Dam Builders Don’t Want You To Know: A Summary
Chapter 3. Resettlement Plans for China’s Three Gorges Dam
Chapter 4. Three Gorges Reservoir: Environmental Impacts
Chapter 5. Potential Methyl Mercury Contamination in the Three Gorges Reservoir
Chapter 6. Downstream Environmental Impacts
Chapter 7. Unresolved Issues: Perspectives from China
Chapter 8. Flood Control Analysis
Chapter 9. Missing Energy Perspectives
Chapter 10. Dam Safety Analysis
Chapter 11. Sedimentation Analysis
Chapter 12. Economic and Financial Aspects
Appendix A: Resettlement Criteria
Appendix B: Engineering Complaints
Endnotes