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FRIGHTENING: China Admits Three Gorges Dam Moved, Ignores Numerous Prior Reports and Says It Just Happened Last Weekend
Gateway Pundit ^ | 07/22/2020 | Joe Hoft

Posted on 07/22/2020 5:45:02 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

China finally admits Its Three Gorges Dam has ‘deformed slightly’ but claims it happened over the weekend, ignoring reports this happened long ago.

The Asian Times reported yesterday:

In a rare revelation, Beijing has admitted that its 2.4-kilometer Three Gorges Dam spanning the Yangtze River in Hubei province “deformed slightly” after record flooding.

The official Xinhua News Agency quoted the operator of the the world’s largest hydroelectric gravity dam as saying that some nonstructural, peripheral parts of the dam had buckled.

The dam was a pet project of the late Premier Li Peng and a monumental pride of the nation when it blocked and diverted Asia’s largest river in 1997.

The deformation occurred last Saturday when the flood from western provinces including Sichuan and Chongqing along the upper reaches of the Yangtze River peaked at a record-setting 61,000 cubic meters per second, according to China Three Gorges Corporation, a state-owned enterprise that manages the dam and the sprawling power plant underneath it.

The company noted that parts of the dam had “deformed slightly,” displacing some external structures, and seepage into the main outlet walls had also been reported throughout the 18 hours on Saturday and Sunday when water was discharged though its outlets.

One week ago the Asian Review reported:

…Zhang Jianping, an activist in Jiangsu, is skeptical.

“With hindsight, I think that all those experts who opposed the buildings of the Three Gorges were right,” Zhang said on Radio Free Asia. “Since it was built, it has never played a role in preventing flooding or droughts, like we thought it would back then.”

Despite protests by residents and environmentalists, the Three Gorges Dam was completed in 2006 after a 12-year build. Millions were displaced as an area of about 600 kilometers was submerged to create the world’s largest dam and hydroelectricity facilities.

However, two weeks ago we reported China’s massive Three Gorges Dam is at risk of blowing, putting 400 million people at risk. The problem is that China once claimed the dam would withstand a 10,000 year flood, then a 1,000 year flood and now only a 100 year flood. Then in 2018 it was reported online that pictures show that the Three Gorges Dam has moved:

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An expert on the region’s food supply, Geoff Quartermaine Bastin, provided this analysis regarding the impact on the world’s food supply should the massive dam break:

The collapse of the TGD would destroy all the cropland and livestock downstream, destroy major cities such as Wuhan and could threaten Shanghai. It would affect the Grand Canal systems and so spill over into the Yellow River Region. I’m not going to quantify the damage, it’s very clear that the collapse would be catastrophic.

But not just to China. The country already is a net food importer. Without soybeans from Brazil and the USA and wheat from Australia and Europe and the US, China cannot feed its livestock let alone its human population. The collapse of the TGD would perhaps be the single largest disaster that could affect the world’s food security because aside from the immediate disaster there would be enormous upward pressure on food prices, putting essential staples out of reach of hundreds of millions of people outside China.

The point here is that anyone concerned about food anywhere should want to think through what they might do if the TGD failed.

The official China position is that the Three Gorges Dam moved this past weekend. It moved, but last weekend is at least two weeks after the dam’s movement first occurred.



TOPICS: Society; Weather
KEYWORDS: breakbabybreak; ccp; china; dam; flooding; foodsupply; foodsupplypanic; photoshoporama; threegorgesdam; yangtze; yangtzeriver
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To: edwinland

Concur. It is image distortion.
And Trump’s fault.
Which runs right underneath the dam.


121 posted on 07/23/2020 12:28:24 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE
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To: SeekAndFind

They don’t superficially believe but they feel it. China has not changed much in 3000 years. With new archaeological discoveries maybe 5000 years. Xi is not much different from previous emperors and China’s system is not much different either. The Communists are just another Dynasty and subject to the same vicissitudes as previous dynasties. They don’t use the same terminology but they feel it when History is showing signs of not being on their side.


122 posted on 07/23/2020 12:42:46 PM PDT by arthurus (sz xi2 0... dd)
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To: CathyWhite

Let’s just hope there’s no secret agreememt among global leaders to give all their populations a 30% haircut!


123 posted on 07/23/2020 12:47:20 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Robert A Cook PE
Concur. It is image distortion.

And Trump’s fault.

Which runs right underneath the dam.

Excellent!

124 posted on 07/23/2020 1:15:39 PM PDT by edwinland
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To: BeauBo
I'm sure this isn't the case, but I always love photos that purport to show people who are so engrossed in their smartphones that they are oblivious to what is going on around them.

-PJ

125 posted on 07/23/2020 1:38:21 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (Freedom of the press is the People's right to publish, not CNN's right to the 1st question.)
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To: ctdonath2

I was thinking the same thing.

A few more Trump-made monsoon thunderstorms (he controls the weather, don’t ya know) and the back pressure will be amazing.

//kidding


126 posted on 07/23/2020 1:50:14 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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thx SE Mom.

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/Edcct2TU4AInrjz?format=jpg&name=900x900


127 posted on 07/23/2020 4:16:05 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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If it blows, even the Yellow River (called “The River of Sorrows”) could be adversely impacted.

The Tremeloes - Yellow River 1970
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qdAO_Y0wiA


128 posted on 07/23/2020 7:27:50 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Lazamataz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PSZEvsYD6o


129 posted on 07/26/2020 11:52:52 AM PDT by Sertorius (A hayseed with no Greek and dam^ proud of it)
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