China has used both the SARS health crisis and the crackdown on the
falun gong spiritual movement as reasons to detain migrants who dare to
complain about the Three Gorges resettlement operation.
Several important issues in Three Gorges resettlement
(August 7, 2003) “We should take migrants’ rights and interests seriously, and never view their reasonable demands as constituting criminal activities,” two senior researchers write in a prestigious Chinese journal.
The vanishing world of the Yangtze’s Three Gorges tonight on WBAI
Deirdre Chetham, the author of Before the Deluge: The Vanishing World of the Yangtze’s Three Gorges, is featured tonight on WBAI’s Asia Pacific Web broadcast, starting at 8 p.m.
Witnesses to history: Migrants gather to watch the reservoir rise
People who were moved to make way for the Three Gorges project gathered at Maoping near the dam site on June 1 to watch the reservoir begin to fill and submerge their old homes.
Dam inspectors from Beijing given a wide berth
Experts from Beijing taking part in a final inspection before the
Three Gorges reservoir is filled next month are being handled with
special care by project officials desperate to prevent a local outbreak
of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).
Three Gorges project sticks to schedule amid SARS crisis
The current health crisis in China will have no impact on plans to
fill the Three Gorges reservoir next month, state media reports.
Cofferdam downstream Three Gorges Dam dismantled
The last section of a cofferdam built to facilitate construction of the Three Gorges Project from the southern bank of the Yangtze was dismantled in seconds after 3:00 p.m. Wednesday.
Relocated residents to reach 1.35 mln in Three Gorges Project
A Three Gorges Project official has said that 1.35 million residents in the dam area will need be relocated, 220,000 more than the original plan.
NPC deputy calls for waiving charges to visit Three Gorges Dam
How much should be paid for a visit to the world’s largest hydroelectric project. The answer of a Chinese legislator is "free". Peng Fuchun, a deputy to the National People’s Congress (NPC), said he would make a suggestion to the NPC, the country’s top legislature, at its upcoming annual session that the Three Gorges Dam is open free of charge to all tourists.
Chinese experts appeal to authorities to suspend big dam projects in southwest China following Sichuan’s deadly earthquake
(June 19, 2008) Experts in geology, water conservancy, and environmental protection have jointly appealed to authorities in Beijing to temporarily suspend the approval of big hydro dams in geologically unstable areas in southwest China.
Shipping industry expects dam closure to have “huge impact”
Shipping companies on the Yangtze River face a steep drop in income for the next two months while navigation is suspended near the Three Gorges dam.
Project manager talks to students about Three Gorges
‘The dam will never collapse and the reservoir will never flood the cities along the downstream valley,’ Lu Youmei reassures students at Beijing University.
Li Peng raises concerns about Three Gorges turbines and river-traffic disruption
Li Peng, long-time champion of the Three Gorges dam, has raised concerns about the project’s giant turbines, which will be larger and more complicated than any ever attempted before.
Comments on the revised ‘Resettlement rules and regulations of the Three Gorges dam’
Dr. Wei critically reviews the revised "Resettlement Rules and Regulations of the Three Gorges Dam.".
Three Gorges Petitioners
Three Gorges petitioners ‘held by police’, reports South China Morning Post.
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