{"id":412693,"date":"2021-04-29T10:52:04","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T05:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=412693"},"modified":"2021-04-29T12:10:46","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T06:40:46","slug":"chinas-dam-project-near-arunachal-pradesh-jeopardised-by-unstable-glacial-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/chinas-dam-project-near-arunachal-pradesh-jeopardised-by-unstable-glacial-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s dam project near Arunachal Pradesh jeopardised by unstable glacial lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A glacial lake formed by a landslide on the Yarlung Zangbo River in Tibet is proving to be an obstacle for China\u2019s mission to build a major hydropower plant on the river\u2019s lower reaches close to the border with the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. <\/p>\n<p>Last month, the central government in China had given its go-ahead to the construction of a dam and hydropower plant on the lower reaches of the river in the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR). The mission had been included in the country\u2019s 14th five-year plan.<\/p>\n<p>The hydropower project is expected to have an electricity generation capacity of 70 gigawatts, which is nearly three times that of the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A glacial lake formed by a landslide on the Yarlung Zangbo River in Tibet is proving to be an obstacle for China\u2019s mission to build a major hydropower plant on the river\u2019s lower reaches close to the border with the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. Last month, the central government in China had given its go-ahead to the construction of a dam and hydropower plant on the lower reaches of the river in the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR). The mission had been included in the country\u2019s 14th five-year plan. The hydropower project is expected to have an electricity generation capacity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,130,236],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-412693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-power-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}