This extensive and interactive piece charts journalist Jamil Anderlini’s return to the Three Gorges Dam and includes interviews with Chongqing mayor, Fu Xiancao, Dai Qing, and a slide show of towns along the Yangtze.
Tremors in China’s road to recovery
(June 11, 2008) While earthquake damage sustained by the country’s dams may pose serious threats, many are turning to the dams themselves for explanations. Probe International Fellow Dai Qing says: “We must look carefully at the questions: How do dams impact earthquakes? How do earthquakes impact dams?”
THREE GORGES ORAL HISTORY SERIES: The Wushan governor’s murder
(February 7, 2008) Chinese journalist Dai Qing and Three Gorges Probe proudly present "Bright Sun City’s Dark Intent" by Liu Bai, the third in a series of oral histories brought to you from the Three Gorges region.
China’s massive dam project causes worry
(December 29, 2007) Residents in the Three Gorges area are concerned by an increase in landslides as the water level rises in the 410 mile-long reservoir. “Almost all my fears have come true,” says Dai Qing. “The landslides and cracks have made people migrants once again."
Thirsty dragon at the Olympics
(December 6, 2007) After the Olympics, how will Beijing’s insatiable thirst for water be satisfied? asks Chinese environmentalist Dai Qing in this week’s New York Review of Books.
Thirsty dragon at the Olympics
(December 6, 2007) After the Olympics, how will Beijing’s insatiable thirst for water be satisfied? asks Chinese environmentalist Dai Qing in this week’s New York Review of Books.
Deep concern over Three Gorges dam
(November 30, 2007) Chinese writer Dai Qing responds to the Chinese government’s campaign to downplay the environmental effects of the Three Gorges dam. “If they’re saying that the landslides have nothing to do with the reservoir than they are telling lies,” she told the BBC.
New York Times “Choking on Growth” series
(November 18, 2007) Probe Fellow Dai Qing responds to New York Times readers’ online queries about China’s environmental woes and the Three Gorges dam. This is part four of the New York Times “Choking on Growth” series that looks at the causes and effects of China’s environmental crisis.
China counts cost of Three Gorges Dam
(October 19, 2007) China’s official news agency Xinhua reported last month that disaster could strike the Three Gorges dam region unless key problems — including landslides and bank erosion — are solved. Probe International’s executive director, Patricia Adams, and International Fellow, Dai Qing, assess the change in government rhetoric after years of assurances the dam is environmentally benign.
The Dam Breaks – China can no longer deny the environmental disaster at Three Gorges
(October 15, 2007) As recently as 2004, the official China Daily was still emitting happy talk about the Three Gorges project’s "achievements in environmental protection of the area." But now comes word that the warnings of Dai Qing and others were true.
Chinese government counts cost of Three Gorges Dam
(October 9, 2007) Recent revelations about the problems at the Three Gorges Dam may be part of an attempt by senior Chinese officials to distance themselves from the controversial hydropower project, say Probe International’s executive director, Patricia Adams, and Probe International Fellow, Dai Qing.
Pioneer activist’s fresh challenge
(October 6, 2007) Probe International Fellow Dai Qing is due to take up a year-long fellowship at the Australian National University, where she hopes to finish a book about dictatorships and liberal intellectuals. The Sydney Morning Herald outlines her unique history as an activist.
Three Gorges project authority: a thief crying stop thief
(October 5, 2007) Probe International Fellow Dai Qing comments on China’s admission that the Three Gorges dam could cause environmental catastrophe.
Chinese admit that Three Gorges dam is an ecological disaster
(September 27, 2007) Probe International Fellow Dai Qing told The Times “We have never stopped talking about the problems but our voice was too weak. The system does not listen to the voices of civic activists or dissidents. But now, at last, they are starting to hear. … The Government knows it has made a mistake. Now they are afraid that the environmental catastrophe that they cannot prevent will spark civil unrest. So they want to go public before the troubles start.
Three Gorges: China is warned of ‘catastrophe’
(September 27, 2007) For environmental activists such as the journalist Dai Qing, whose book Yangtze! Yangtze! earned her 10 months in a maximum security prison and the threat of the death sentence, the official admission that the Three Gorges dam is a potential environmental disaster was received with bitter irony. (The Independent UK)
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