Reports
Chinese dams could harm river ecology
Bangkok Post November 10/2002
'The more dams are constructed, the greater damage they would bring to our Mekong,' environmentalist Yu Xiaogang told a public forum in Bangkok.
Three Gorges rural resettlement and its impact on the host population and the environment
March 1/2002
Researchers who tracked a small number of farmers affected by the Three Gorges resettlement found that most of the migrants, as well as households monitored in the host community, they were less well off than before.
REPORT by Dr. Wei Yi: New resettlement rules won't solve Three Gorges' problems
March 29/2001
A Three Gorges Probe exclusive: Civil strife and corruption will continue to plague world's largest civil works project, predicts respected sociologist Dr. Wei Yi.
LU QINKAN PETITION #2: Respect initial Three Gorges dam plan or risk disaster
July 1/2000
Leading Chinese engineer/hydrologist Lu Qinkan and 52 seniorengineers and academics submitted this second protest letter to China's leaders in June, 2000.
CHINESE GOVT RESPONSE TO LU QINKAN'S PETITION
April 17/2000
The Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, the Correspondence Bureau of the State Council official respond to Lu Qinkan and experts' Three Gorges Dam petition.
LU QINKAN PETITION #1
March 3/2000
Urgent appeal that the Three Gorges project should be operated at the initial retained water level of 156 metres in line with the National People's Congress's resolution in order to evaluate silt deposit and to reduce resettlement pressure.
THESIS: Three Gorges resettlement and marginalization
University of Leeds, School of Geography January 1/2000
Thesis by Chinese academic and scholar, writes that a lack of adequate compensation is a common feature of dam resettlement schemes the world over, and the Three Gorges resettlement is no exception.
REPORT: China's great leap backward 1999
Probe International December 16/1999
Economic reforms to decentralize power production in China and to allow private power production are placing those alternatives in direct competition with Three Gorges and other big dams.
REPORT: Uncovering Three Gorges dam
Media Studies Journal December 1/1999
Wu Mei reports on North America's press coverage of Chinese environmental issues and the Three Gorges dam.
REPORT: Major problems and hidden troubles in relocation of Three Gorges project
Strategy and Management Journal May 28/1999
Wei Yi's report questioning the current strategy of resettlement in the dam areas. The first major critique of the project in the Chinese media since 1990, it discloses some serious problems and troubles with the resettlement programme.
Submission to the Export Development Act Review
Probe International December 21/1998
The Export Development Corporation (EDC) transfers the private risks of international business to the public sector. By socializing this risk, it spawns moral hazard allowing exports, investments, and projects to proceed
REPORT: China's great leap backward
International Journal, Autumn 1998 September 21/1998
The tragedy of the Three Gorges dam goes beyond the nearly two million people who will be resettled from their homes,villages, farms, temples, and work places to make way for it
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