Communities around the Three Parallel Rivers World Heritage Site are no strangers to protest. For instance, in incredible victory for the burgeoning Chinese environmental movement, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao announced in 2004 the suspension of a 13-dam cascade on the Nu River, officially for failure to comply with reporting requirements under China's new Environmental Impact Assessment Law. It was delayed again in 2009, after an international coalition including Thai and Burmese groups wrote letters to the Premier calling for an assessment of the downstream impacts of the dams.
http://www.internationalrivers.org/en/blog/katy-yan/2012-2-16/tibetan-village-stops-mining-near-nu-river
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