Category: Banqiao dam

Reservoir Discharge Without Warning in China: Another Communist Trait

Commentary Since May, heavy rains and floods have hit China. The regime’s official data showed that, in May alone, 89 rivers were flooded above warning levels and 3.7 million people were affected in 18 provinces, including Hunan, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong, and Guangxi, The Epoch Times reported in June. Residents have complained that the floods…


The Renewable Energy Disaster Far More Deadly Than Chernobyl

Commentary Decades ago, a single energy disaster left three million acres of land uninhabitable to humans and killed between 85,600 and 240,000 people. A casual student of history might assume these shocking statistics refer to the Chernobyl nuclear accident, but that would be incorrect. No, this catastrophic specter was the fault of the Banqiao Dam collapse in…