India has voiced concern about Beijing’s plan to build a dam in Tibet that is three times larger than China’s Three Gorges, currently the world’s largest hydropower facility.
The hydropower project in the lower reaches of the Yarlung Tsangpo river, announced last month, is part of a network of dams being built across Tibet as China aims to increase the renewable energy share of its power consumption to 33 per cent this year from 28.8 per cent in 2020.
“It is a mega project with a lot of ecological disturbances and it does not take into account the interests of the lower riparian states,” said Randhir Jaiswal, spokesperson for India’s foreign ministry, this month.
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