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BEIJING, Nov. 27 — Chinese officials overseeing the Three Gorges Dam today defended the project’s environmental record and asserted that pressure from rising waters in the dam’s reservoir was not to blame for any major geological incidents or disasters in the region.
北京11月27号－中国政府官员今天视察了三峡大坝，澄清了三峡水库关于环境的负面传闻，并宣称大坝蓄水库的水位上升不会对这一地区造成任何大的地质事件或灾难。
Wang Xiaofeng, director of the government’s Three Gorges Project Construction Committee, said the government had spent more than $1.6 billion in recent years on shoring up fragile areas in the region that are prone to landslides and other geological activity.
政府三峡工程建设委员会主席王晓峰说：政府近年来已投入了超过160亿元用于对这一地区容易产生塌方和其它地质运动的脆弱地表进行支撑。
For weeks, the Three Gorges Dam project has been the subject of growing scrutiny, as scientists and even some officials have publicly expressed concerns about environmental problems attributed to the dam.
几周来，三峡大坝工程正在进行详细的审查，因为科学家甚至一些政府官员已公开表示了对大坝引起的环境问题的关注。
At the same time, many peasants in the Three Gorges region say the number of landslides is increasing as water has slowly risen in the reservoir behind the dam.
同时，许多住在三峡地区的农民说由于大坝水库水位的慢慢增高，塌方的数量也在增加。
Last week at least 31 people were killed in a landslide that crushed a passenger bus traveling through a construction site near the reservoir. No cause has yet been announced for that fatal incident.
上周一辆通过水库旁一个工地的旅行车被塌方压垮，造成至少31人死亡。目前这一重大事故的原因不明。
But some scientists and local officials have blamed the rising reservoir for some, if not all, of the recent geological activity in the region. The higher water places greater weight on the shoreline but also seeps into crevices of existing rock formations and mountains, experts say.
Mr. Wang attended the September forum and said addressing environmental concerns would be a “long and hard road.” He also warned that “future disasters” could arise if environmental protection work was not intensified.
Li Yong’an, general manager of the China Yangtze River Three Gorges Project Development Corporation, told reporters that the dam project had not triggered any “major” landslides along the main shoreline of the reservoir, though he declined to say how many areas in the region had been designated as unstable.
Meanwhile, Mr. Wang said the government would increase efforts at environmental protection.
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