Posted by Free on August 30, 2010, at 19:43:52
In reply to Re: Chinas epic 60mile traffic jam-10days and counting » Free, posted by sigismund on August 30, 2010, at 16:54:39
> >I hope their workers are not subjected to gruesome labor conditions to get the job done in a hurry.
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> Nothing would surprise me.
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> With the Three Gorges dam.................how many people were displaced? They packed up the bones of their ancestors and moved. Was it 10 million of them?There are reports of cracks and landslides all around the dam, and it sits on a earthquake fault line. Thousands of villages and hundreds of cities under the dam will be submerged if there is a catastrophic failure.
You're right. It wouldn't surprise me either. Some of the thousands of Three Gorges dam workers got paid a few dollars a day for doing dangerously hard labor while living in a hillside shed without water and toilets. Things could always be worse I guess.
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