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Chinese Engineers Propose World’s Biggest Hydro-electric Project in Tibet

The Guardian reports on a proposal to build a hydroelectric dam in the upper reaches of the Brahmaputra River which would be one a half times the size of the Three Gorges Dam:Zhang Boting, the deputy general secretary of the China Society for Hydropower Engineering, told the Guardian that a massive dam on the great bend of the Yarlung Tsangpo – the Tibetan name for the river – would b