In China over the past fortnight, the waters have been rising in what will eventually be a 350-mile-long reservoir created by the Three Gorges Dam. When finished, the dam’s turbines will generate energy equivalent to 18 nuclear power plants. The dam will also improve navigation on the Yangtze and mitigate the flooding risk which has swept away entire towns and killed 300,000 people in the past century.
None of these noble aims, however, impresses the environmental pressure group Probe International, which has campaigned doggedly against the dam over the...
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