Re: [Marxism] Did Mega-Dam in China lead to earthquake?

[nada <dwaltersMIA@xxxxxxxxx>]

Well, one of the obvious things, a good thing, is that the reservoir 
which *may* of stimulated the earthquake, itself survived *relatively* 
unscathed. There were, according to some of the Google News reports I 
looked at after Louis posted this, cracks that appeared in the dam 
itself. Later it seems the poised no threat to the integrity of the dam 
itself. But who knows for sure?

A mountain side collapsed into the reservoir as a byproduct of the earth 
quake.

China is building more dams and, like the 3 Gorges Dam that currently is 
the largest one in the world. The dams themselves represent massive 
mitigator to the building of coal plants, another scourge of Chinese 
economic growth. The reservoirs, for the first few years, represent 
methane producers as well as vegetation now underwater decomposes and 
releases the gas.

China is planning to build MORE of these massive dams. At least 10 more, 
around Eastern and Southern China. This issue is going to be ongoing for 
decades.

Speaking of dams, there is an international proposal to build the "Grand 
Inga Project" in Congo. It's is almost exactly *double* the size of the 
3 Gorges Project in electrical output.

David

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