I was thinking of this statement this morning. Thanks Anon.
Muh images/no images
Sheeple. Wearing masks in the water at the beach in San Diego. God help us.
Been having trouble for over a year in ChYna
Story- July 2019
The state-owned operator of China’s Three Gorges Dam has moved to quash rumours that the world’s largest hydropower project is in trouble, after images from Google Maps circulated which appeared to show the structure had warped.
In a statement on its WeChat social media account, the company said the mammoth Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River was in normal working order, with all metrics up to standard, and it was running “safely and reliably”.
Claims began circulating on overseas social media platforms at the beginning of July that the dam was in danger of collapse, and recently were picked up among China’s online community.
But China Three Gorges Corporation (CTGC) has refuted the claims, saying all measurements of the dam’s displacement were in line with its design parameters, which require a degree of flexibility.
“The distribution of vertical and horizontal displacements is related to the height of the dam … and is in line with the deformation law of a concrete gravity dam,” the company said.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3017927/no-problem-all-chinas-three-gorges-dam-warping-rumours-denied
Interesting history on Three Gorges Dam from a 2008 story. Worried about it since it was first built.
Chinese and foreign scientists, meanwhile, warned that the dam could endanger the area's remaining residents. Among their concerns: landslides caused by increased pressure on the surrounding land, a rise in waterborne disease, and a decline in biodiversity. But their words fell on deaf ears. Harnessing the power of the Yangtze has been a goal since Nationalist leader Sun Yat-sen first proposed the idea in 1919. Mao Zedong, the father of China's communist revolution, rhapsodized the dam in a poem. The mega- project could not be realized in his lifetime, however, because the country's resources were exhausted by the economic failures of the Great Leap Forward in the late 1950s and then the social upheaval of the Cultural Revolution from the mid-1960s a to the early 1970s. Four decades later, the government resuscitated Mao's plans. The first of the Yangtze's famed gorges—a collection of steep bluffs at a bend in the river—was determined to be the perfect site.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/chinas-three-gorges-dam-disaster/