(July 21, 2009) The Xiluodu hydropower project, China’s second-largest hydropower station, is under fire from government auditors for weak spending controls, costly contract alterations to speed up the project and other problems.

(July 21, 2009) Developers building one of the world’s biggest hydropower projects in southwest China are taking dangerous shortcuts, state media reported Tuesday, citing the national auditor.

(May 20, 2006) China hails the Three Gorges dam, which it completed Saturday, as the solution to a series of national problems, but critics say the price is too high.

(May 15, 2006) With the last of the concrete being poured nearly a decade after China stemmed the flow of the Yangtze River to begin work, environmentalists say it should provide a cautionary tale to an energy-hungry government pushing similar hydropower dam projects.

(May 28, 2006) (IPS) WASHINGTON — The mammoth Three Gorges dam in China is attracting renewed calls for an independent financial and environmental audit, as concerns mount over the hefty costs and social and environmental impact of the world’s largest dam.

(July 10, 2009) Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang has called for efforts to intensify construction and management of the Three Gorges Project and to improve its functions in flood control as the region is now in the peak flood season.

(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.