Last Chance to Stop 3 Gorges Dam/SE Asia Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit source:"Kevin Yuk Shing Li" 10-20-97 STOP THE CONSTRUCTION OF THREE GORGES DAM (The last chance) China: The Controversy of Three Gorges Dam Brief Introduction of The Progress of Three Gorges Dam Construction There are a lot of news about the progress of construction from the official press. As you know, the construction of Three Gorges Dam causes millions of residents to leave their homeland and lose their livelihood, and also destroy the ecology of Yangtze River. Recently, the PRC government encountered financial problems in the construction, and also faces strong opposition from foreign environmentalists and human rights activists. This may be the great and last opportunities to stop it. If you want to know more about this and show your opposition, you may feel free to go through the web sites below, and urges the banks and companies that provide financial or technological support to the construction to stop it. Major Three Gorges Dam Campaign Sites 1. http://www.irn.org/programs/3g/index.html (Three Gorges Campaign) 2. http://www.nextcity.com/ProbeInternational/ThreeGorges/ index.html (Probe International - Three Gorges Dam Campaign) 3. http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~chrismc/outline.html (Three Gorges Outline) 4. http://arachnid.colgate.edu/jeffo/dams/gorges.html (Three Gorges Project) 5. http://www.exim.gov/3gorges.html (Frequently Asked Questions About the Three Gorges Dam Project) 6. http://theory.caltech.edu/people/ckchow/hkf/TGP/ (Index of /people/ckchow/hkf/TGP/) News About Three Gorges Dam 6. http://www.cleanenergy.de/News_archive/07_12_97/ 020997_1.html (Renewable energy news article) (New) 7. http://www.abb.ch/abbgroup/pressreleases/250897.htm (ABB Press Release 25-08-97) 8. http://www.apec.org/newmedia/media00959.html (China needs foreign money for its controversial dam) 9. http://www.enn.com/planetenn/012097/feature5.htm (The Three Gorges controversy -- Planet ENN, Jan. 20, 1997) 10. http://www.edf.org/pubs/NewsReleases/1996/Nov/ a_gorges.html (35 ENVIRONMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS CONDEMN GERMAN EXPORT FINANCING FOR CHINA'S THREE GORGES DAM) 11. http://www.mirrors.org.sg/voyage/stories/0996wat7.htm (China's Three Gorges Dam: Is the "Progress" Worth the Ecological Risk?) 12. http://www.drugtext.nl/hrw/summaries/s.china952.html (The Three Gorges Dam in China: Forced Resettlement, Suppression of Dissent and Labor Rights Concerns) 13. http://www.envirolink.org/envlib/EnviroLink_Library/ action/news/gen/3gorges.html (URGENT ACTION NEEDED TO PREVENT U.S. SUPPORT OF WORLD's MOST DESTRUCTIVE DAM) 14. http://www.buildlink.co...y/politics/96year/8.htm 15. http://www.redfish.com/USEmbassy-China/sandt/CA3GORG.HTM (JAPAN'S MITI EVALUATES THREE GORGES DAM PROJECT) 16. http://www.jpn.co.jp/may96/jp4.html (Three Gorges Dam, MITI, Japan, John Tofflemire) 17. http://www.cedar.univie.ac.at/arch/infoterra/95dec/ msg00070.html (Re: Three Gorges Dam) 18. http://www.edf.org/pubs/reports/easterbr2/ g_section6.html (Correcting More Errors--Section 6) 19. http://www.ran.org/ran/ran_campaigns/mitsubishi/ june_update.html (Boycott Mitsubishi Campaign Update) web sites collected by Kevin Li http://hkpwd.home.ml.org/3gorges.htm Kevin Li Hong Kong Progressive Web Directory http://hkpwd1.home.ml.org/ http://hkpwd.home.ml.org/ http://hkpwd2.home.ml.org/ Free web-based email, Forever, From anywhere! http://www.mailexcite.com ================================================================= NY Transfer News Collective * A Service of Blythe Systems Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us 339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012 http://www.blythe.org e-mail: nyt@blythe.org ================================================================= nytas-10.21.97-14:22:32-30128