China - sunk costs at the Sichuan dam

Although media have been banned from Sichuan province after the recent dam protest some reports have leaked out. The figures on numbers protesting or injured are heresay, but accounts that the building continues after a token dismissal of a scapegoat official and not so token flooding of the area with troops are interesting more from The Chosun Ilbo...The need for the power these projects provide means its no surprise the farmers will lose out but it must be hugely expensive to police a massive area in this way. The Hoover dam was never like this.