UPDATE ON THREE GORGES DAM IN CHINA- MAJOR PROBLEMS 6/7/10

UPDATE 6/8/10 - MORE INFORMATION FOUND!

The local government hastily moved out of a prestigious new block after experts warned that it was unsafe.

I found more information about what has been recent events at the Three Gorges Dam. I will continue looking for information - it is hard to come by - due to China and how much information actually gets out.

THIS IS AN UPDATE ON THREE GORGES DAM IN CHINA

Please see this post for a full research article, I did about Three Gorges Dam.

This article has just come out today about the Three Gorges Dam.

CRACKS IN THREE GORGES DAM 300,000 CAN WAVE GOODBYE TO THEIR HOMES

Says Cracks are appearing all around the Dam, besides the landslides and other problems, including Earth Quakes.

In China, cracks are appearing – in the neighbourhood of the massive Three Gorges Dam, the country’s great prestige project, and also in the Great Internet Firewall of China, enabling the ominous news to leak out. Three years ago stories were already emerging in the Chinese media about landslides, ecological deterioration and accumulation of algae further down the river. And less and less effort seems to be made to plug the leaks.

Recent media reports tell of a series of landslips, minor earthquakes and cracks appearing in roads and buildings along the central section of the Yangtse, between the dam and the city of Chongqing. Almost 10,000 “dangerous sites” have been identified, but many of the people living near them cannot be relocated for lack of money. Two years ago thousands of children died in Sichuan Province because their schools were not resistant to the earthquake which hit the area; in the town of Badong near Chongqing children are attending school in buildings which have been recognised as far more vulnerable. What else can they do? The local authorities can’t afford a new one.

There is much more information at the link. If the Three Gorges Dam, ever breaks and fails the Whole Earth Will be affected!