Pro-Dam+Support



__ ** Alternative Energy Resources ** __  ·  **The Three Gorges Dam project is the largest hydroelectric dam project in the world ($24 billion).**  ·  **Hydroelectric power is cleaner than coal.**  ·  **This will prevent future water and air pollution (coal and oil).**  ·  **The dam will produce 18, 000 megawatts of power from 26 different generators (8 times the Hoover Dam produces).**  ·  **The dam will directly reduce emissions of sulfur dioxide, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, mercury, and other greenhouse gases.**  ·  **The dam will generate the electricity equivalent to 50 tons of coal and the power of 18 nuclear power plants, enough to provide energy for D.C., New York, and Boston.**  ·  **The dam will produce 11% of China’s energy in the future.**  ·  **Scarce energy resources will be depleted without the dam.** __ **Flooding Disasters** __  ·  **15 million people will be relieved from the threat of floods.**  ·  **The dam can hold up to 39.3 billion m3.**  ·  **The dam can help stop flood peak by 27,000 to 33, ooo m3 per second.**  ·  **Floods have threatened and killed millions of people in the past.**  ·  **The flood of 1954 killed 30,000 people and left 1 million homeless.**  ·  **Floods have chronically threatened the Yangtze River area in 1931, 1935, 1949, 1954 and 1998.**  ·  **This will stop and floods will be controlled, due to the dam.** __ **Trade and Development** __  ·  **The dam can sustain 10,000 ton trading freighters to allow direct passage inland through the dam.** <span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 11pt; color: #ff6600; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; text-effect: none; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"> ·  **This encourages and increases trade between East and West China.** <span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 11pt; color: #ff6600; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; text-effect: none; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"> ·  **Convenient navigation through the dam with farther improve trade, as well. ** <span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 11pt; color: #ff6600; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; text-effect: none; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"> ·  **Several major industrial cities lie on the Yangtze River; Chongqing, Wuhan, Nanjing and Shanghai.** <span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 11pt; color: #ff6600; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; text-effect: none; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"> ·  **All generated power from the dam will be utilized for industry to boost outputs.** <span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 11pt; color: #ff6600; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; text-effect: none; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"> ·  **In the 1980s, 80% of all of China’s goods arrived and departed on the Yangtze River and most still do today.** __ **Chinese Development** __ <span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 11pt; color: green; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; text-effect: none; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"> ·  **The dam will produce 84 billion kilowatts of power for China annually.** <span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 11pt; color: green; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; text-effect: none; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"> ·  **This power will boost industry tremendously and increase economic outputs (17 million kilowatts will be used for this).** <span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 11pt; color: green; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; text-effect: none; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"> ·  ** China’s power production must raise 8% every year to keep up with the annual 6% increase in gross national product. ** <span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 11pt; color: green; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; text-effect: none; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"> ·  **Hydroelectric power (18,000 megawatts) will benefit China’s economy greatly and encourage further development of China. ** <span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 11pt; color: green; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; text-effect: none; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"> ·  **The dam will be the largest construction project since the Great Wall of China.**