Dossier
hydropower project
Coverage of hydropower project in the Nexus archive.
- Tunnel collapses at an Indian hydropower project, killing at least 7
An under-construction tunnel collapsed at a hydropower project located in Uttarakhand, an Indian northern hill state. Officials confirmed that the incident resulted in the death of at least seven workers.
- Active fault line threatens world’s biggest hydropower project, Chinese geologists warn
Chinese geologists have identified an active fault line beneath the world’s largest hydropower project on Tibet’s Yarlung Tsangpo (Brahmaputra) River, warning it threatens the infrastructure of the mega-dam. The fracture in the Earth’s crust in the eastern Himalayan region could compromise the project’s stability, according to a study published in the journal Sedimentary Geology and Tethyan Geology.