Probe International

Environmentalists are warning investors that bonds to be sold soon will indirectly finance China’s Three Gorges dam. The dam’s future "rests squarely in the hands of international bankers and investors," says Probe International fellow, Dai Qing.

A new association for protecting the eco-environment at the water sources of China’s three major rivers — the Yangtze, Yellow and Lancang — has been founded in capital of the northwestern province Qinghai, where the rivers rise.

He Kechang retired to a village above the Yangtze River hoping to spend his last years with his family working their land. But as construction started on the Three Gorges dam down river, he found himself drawn into a morass of deceit and corruption.

‘Disturbing public order’ is charge against farmers demanding due compensation in relocation.

Project progress update: By the end of March 2001, Three Gorges project had completed one-third of its total projected investment, laying a solid foundation for the operation of some of its generators by 2003 as scheduled

China is preparing to try four men on charges of leaking state secrets by allegedly uncovering corrupt practices on the mammoth Three Gorges Dam project, Agence France-Presse.

China plans to try four men who protested the theft of funds earmarked for resettling people in the massive Three Gorges Dam project.

IRN writes to Wall Street firm Morgan Stanley insisting that their funding of the dam makes them complicit in these human rights abuses and urging the firm to cease their support of the dam.

Two missing farmers who helped organise petitions by peasants being resettled to make way for the Three Gorges Dam are believed to be in police detention.

Dams are not the only massive infrastructure projects beloved by Beijing. China’s leadership has hatched several grand schemes, partly this reflects the impatience of a nation barreling toward the developed world.

Sources announce that the first group of two generators for the Three Gorges Project will start operation in October 2003.

More than 60,000 people living in the reservoir area of the Three-Gorges Project have applied to move to other Chinese provinces.

China will build two additional multi-billion-dollar reservoirs on the Yangtze River to generate power and trap sediment that would otherwise congest the Three Gorges Dam.

Three companies will jointly underwrite the construction insurance for the installation of 14 hydropower generating units on the Three Gorges’ left bank and the insurance for the transportation of transformers and gas insulated systems.