(December 24, 1997) The Daughter of a revolutionary martyr, a former missile technician and one-time intelligence agent, Dai Qing is China’s foremost investigative reporter. Dai Qing first criticized China’s Three Gorges dam project in the Chinese daily press, and compiled and edited Yangtze!, Yangtze!, a collection of essays by prominent Chinese intellectuals opposed to the dam, in 1989.
PRESS RELEASE Crisis loom as engineers prepare to dam Three Gorges
(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.
Crisis loom as engineers prepare to dam Three Gorges
PRESS RELEASE The River Dragon has come!
(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.
The River Dragon has come!
(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!
(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 advantages of combined cycle plants: A ‘New Generation’ technology
(November 1, 1997) Electricity industries worldwide are undergoing a period of profound upheaval.
PRESS RELEASE: GE alerted to economic risks, environmental destruction and human rights abuses linked to TG dam
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.
Letter to financial research and rating institutions
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.
Letter to socially responsible financial advisors and mutual funds
(September 24, 1997) The following letter was sent to socially responsible financial advisors and mutual funds managers , 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.
Letter to shareholders of General Electric Company
The following letter was sent to the largest shareholders in General Electric Company, 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.
Whose conduct is too vile to sign Canada’s new International Code of Ethics?
(September 21, 1997) In September, at the urging of the federal government, a group of Canadian companies voluntarily agreed to follow a new International Code of Ethics in their overseas activities.
China revives controversial resettlement plan
China has revived a controversial plan to resettle Han Chinese, China’s ethnic majority, into the western province of Xinjiang, populated mainly by Muslim minorities, to make way for the massive Three Gorges dam.
On the nature of reservoir-induced seismicity
(1997) In most cases of reservoir-induced seismicity, seismicity follows the impoundment, large lake-level changes, or filling at a later time above the highest water level achieved until then. We classify this as initial seismicity. This ‘‘initial seismicity’’ is ascribable to the coupled poroelastic response of the reservoir to initial filling or water level changes.
Three Gorges dam: investors still suspicious, controversy rages on
Despite China’s optimism in offering a $120 million bond issue for the Three Gorges Project this month, international investors are still hesitant to back the highly controversial dam.
Probe International 