Labels:text | screenshot | black and white | font | black | number OCR: Environment Groups Will Sue to Stop U.S. Page 86 WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Defenders of Wildlife and others including Green China, the International Three Gorges Coalition, Friends of the Earth and the Center for International Environmental Law today notified the commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation (bureau), U.S. Department of Interior, of the group's intention to sue the bureau because of its assistance to the People's Republic of China (PRC) in constructing the controversial Three Gorges Dam project. The groups charge that the bureau's and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' assistance is illegal because the two services have not consulted with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS). The Endangered Species Act requires all federal agencies to consult with FWS on any agency action that may affect an endangered or threatened species. The PRC has considered damming the Three Gorges region of the Yangtze River for over 40 years. Now, with the United States assistance, the PRC is moving toward its goal of building the world's largest dam that will cause major human hardship and ecological destruction to a site that has been compared to the U.S. Grand Canyon. The dam would disrupt feeding areas of the endangered Siberian crane, harm resting areas and food supplies of both the endangered Yangtze river dolphin and the endangered Chinese alligator, and could affect feeding areas of the endangered giant panda.
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