Canada's Aid Seeded China Dam

• The News: China's controversial Three Gorges Dam is causing unprecedented population resettlement. • The Background: Some foreign governments had a hand in helping build the dam. In the case of Canada, it disregarded its own engineers and backed a bigger dam than was thought feasible. • What's at Stake: Already 1.4 million people have had to relocate; millions more may have to make way, driving up the dam's costs and causing trouble for China's government. The decision to build the Three Gorges Dam was ultimately Beijing's. But a big part of how events played out occurred thousands of miles away in the Canadian province of Quebec. In the midst of a domestic political crisis, the Canadian government offered important assistance for the dam, despite warnings from Canadian engineers about how high the dam could be. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119906431204358677.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

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