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uhnope

(6,419 posts) Tue Feb 16, 2016, 04:51 PM Feb 2016

EXCLUSIVE: CHINA DAMMING LHASA RIVER INTO ARTIFICIAL LAKES

Source: Voice of America / Headline News

Tibet’s Lhasa River is being turned into a series of artificial lakes, according to Chinese state media.

Launched in 2013, Beijing’s Lhasa River Project (LRP) aims to complete construction of six dams along a 20-kilometer stretch of river that edges the city center.

Unlike hydropower projects upstream from the Tibetan capital, the artificial lakes are designed to promote tourism, improve water quality, prevent sandstorms and create a “green environment.”

But some critics, including Professor Fan Xiao, a Chinese geologist with the Sichuan Geological Society, disagree.

“Dams can slow down the river flow and damage the water quality,” Fan told VOA’s Tibetan Service. “The water environment capacity will decrease and more easily be polluted … flowing water is much better than still water.”

Read more: http://www.headlines-news.com/2016/02/16/882533/exclusive-china-damming-lhasa-river-into-artificial-lakes

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EXCLUSIVE: CHINA DAMMING LHASA RIVER INTO ARTIFICIAL LAKES (Original Post) uhnope Feb 2016 OP

China never gave a damn about the environment d_legendary1 Feb 2016 #1

Oh, they might benefit the aedes mosquito Warpy Feb 2016 #2

With all that pollution they're generating d_legendary1 Feb 2016 #3

Now that, boys and girls, is what you call imperialism at its worst Jack Rabbit Feb 2016 #4

d_legendary1

(2,586 posts)

1. China never gave a damn about the environment

Reply to uhnope (Original post)

Tue Feb 16, 2016, 05:21 PM

Feb 2016

Its building six dams, but none of them benefit wild life.

Warpy

(111,352 posts)

2. Oh, they might benefit the aedes mosquito

Reply to d_legendary1 (Reply #1)

Tue Feb 16, 2016, 05:25 PM

Feb 2016

although Beijing might be too far north for them to be a huge problem.

d_legendary1

(2,586 posts)

3. With all that pollution they're generating

Reply to Warpy (Reply #2)

Tue Feb 16, 2016, 05:32 PM

Feb 2016

they'll soon become a rapidly growing problem.

Jack Rabbit

(45,984 posts)

4. Now that, boys and girls, is what you call imperialism at its worst

Reply to uhnope (Original post)

Tue Feb 16, 2016, 07:38 PM

Feb 2016

China has a long, sorry history of it, going back long before Chairman Mao.

The Chinese empire was founded by Shi Huangdi in 220 BC (the Roman emoire wasn't founded until 44 BC) and the last emperor was overthrown by the Republicans under Sun Yat-sen in 1911. Even today, China controls non-Chinese peoples in Manchuria, Tibet, Inner Mongolia, Sichuan, Qinghai and Xinjiang.

Imperialism is like slavery except that instead of expropriating the labor of another individual to a "master," it expropriates all the resources of an entire nation to a "mother country" or imperial power. Both slavery and imperialism assume a classic right wing paradigm of some people simply having a right to rule over others, who are deemed inferior.

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