Bank of America, I say to you, maybe you don’t know that the middleman is providing funds to the Three Gorges Project. You may say that "China wants to build this and has borrowed from me". But I am here today to tell you that you don’t understand.

(November 7, 1997) As engineers prepare to divert the Yangtze River and build a temporary coffer dam, longtime concerns raised by international experts are becoming technical problems at China’s Three Gorges dam site.

(November 3, 1997) As officials prepare to divert China’s mighty Yangtze River to build the world’s largest dam, Chinese journalist Dai Qing is releasing a new book of critical essays about the controversial Three Gorges project. The River Dragon Has Come! is a stern warning to China’s leaders from prominent Chinese intellectuals, engineers, and journalists about the dam’s potentially disastrous effects on China’s economy, people, and venerable Yangtze River.

General Electric shareholders are getting involved in the riskiest and most destructive dam project ever, according to seven environmental groups, representing nearly 900,000 supporters across North America.

The following letter was sent to financial research and rating institutions, after it was announced in September that General Electric Canada, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Connecticut – based General Electric Company, was awarded a contract to supply turbines and generators to the Three Gorges dam project.