Source: Philippines News.Net
Construction of the Coca Codo Sinclair hydroelectric dam is due to begin in Ecuador next month.China will finance the project to 85 per cent of the cost.
China's state-run Sinohydro Corp has been instrumental in the controversial project which is intended to supply 35 per cent of Ecuador’s power needs by 2016.
The project has been criticised by environmentalists, who have complained the dam will be built in highly sensitive rainforest and waterfall area.
The gigantic dam is being constructed at the foothills of the Andes, in the Amazon rainforest, some 75 kilometres east of the capital Quito.
It will sit on the Coca River, which flows into a tributary of the Amazon River, at a big bend where the water level plunges 600 metres.