(November 12, 2007) Professor Chen, a senior researcher at the Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, describes resettlement and environmental dangers associated with dam building in the ecologically fragile and ethnically diverse upper Yangtze region of southwestern China. He further warns that dam builders and local governments will experience greater difficulty forcing people off their land as people become more aware of their rights and of resettlement failures elsewhere.

(November 9, 2007) Earlier this year, Central China Television (CCTV) interviewed Weng Lida, Director of the Yangtze Water Resources Protection Bureau, about water pollution in the Yangtze and his department’s newly-published report, Yangtze Protection and Development 2007.

(November 9, 2007) Chongqing mayor Wang Hongju told press in Bejing on October 15th that the Three Gorges Project has "not destroyed the local environment."

(November 9, 2007) Fam Zhongcheng and his parents were ordered to abandon their hometown of Tonglin Village last year as part of the government relocation of 1.4 million people to make way for the 400-mile-long reservoir created by the dam. While demolishing their own home, Mr. Fan’s elderly parents were crushed when a wall collapsed on them.

(November 8, 2007) A Chinese businessman is suing the government over the deaths of thousands of rare plants he had saved from being submerged by the Three Gorges dam, China Daily reported.

(November 7, 2007) China’s Three Gorges Project Corporation began damming the Jinsha River 770 kilometres upstream from the Three Gorges dam on November 7 to build the Xiluodu hydropower plant, the second largest of its type next to the massive Three Gorges Project.