Word: dammed
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...million citizens engaged in 58,000 public protests, up 15% compared with the previous year. Figures for last year are not available, but there's been no apparent letup in unrest. In November, for example, as many as 100,000 Sichuan province residents physically blocked construction of a hydroelectric dam before police could regain control...
...Week of Water PAKISTAN President Pervez Musharraf promised compensation for victims of the floods that killed at least 278 people nationwide, including 135 known to have died when a dam burst in the southern coastal province of Balochistan. The rain and snowstorms that battered the country last week left tens of thousands of people homeless...
...Last week, however, the agency pulled off a rare victory. On Wednesday, SEPA vice director Pan Yue announced that it had successfully halted construction on 30 major projects, including the massive Xiluodu Dam on the upper Yangtze River, all of which had apparently failed to carry out legally mandated environmental-impact assessments before building. Major power plants have long been dismissive of environmental regulations: the China Three Gorges Project Corp., which is responsible for the $5.3 billion Xiluodu Dam, initially defied SEPA's order to stop building on Jan. 18?a breach for which the agency could do nothing more...
MAJOR PROJECTS: The controversial Three Gorges Dam will be the biggest power plant in the world when it is completed in 2009. Another major hydroelectric project, the Longtan hydropower station on the Pearl River, is scheduled for completion...
...these developments mean tolerance is backfiring on the Dutch, they're not about to accept the alternative. Van Gogh's murder was such an affront to free speech that Cohen, the Amsterdam mayor who was once the butt of his anti-Semitic jokes, asked demonstrators to gather in Dam Square and make noise. Twenty thousand people came, screaming and banging pots, pans and drums in the damp autumn night. A progressive society isn't about to go down quietly...