[Channel 4 News] China's Three Gorges Dam Project

Lindsey Hilsum reports (2008.01.14) on how China's Three Gorges Dam is bedevilled by landslips and pollution. "The project could lead to catastrophe". Not the words of a dissident environmentalist, but the official Chinese news agency in a story about the Three Gorges Dam. For the first time since the project was started in the 1980s, government scientists have started to express concern about landslides and water pollution caused by the biggest dam in the world. But the government also wants to tout the Three Gorges Dam as China's greatest source of renewable energy.