Beijing's own scientists have flagged that the site of its record-breaking hydropower project on the Yarlung Tsangpo sits directly on a fault line that has been shifting since the Ice Age, a disclosure that adds a fresh dimension to India's long-running concerns over the dam.
China is pressing ahead with construction of what will be the largest hydropower project on Earth, built on the Yarlung Tsangpo in Tibet, the river that becomes the Brahmaputra once it crosses into Arunachal Pradesh and flows on through Assam and into Bangladesh. But a new report has surfaced an uncomfortable detail buried in the project's own backyard: geologists working under a Chinese state body have concluded that the dam is coming up right on top of an active fault.
