The colony was called " Lygonia " after Cecily Lygon, mother of New England Council president Sir Ferdinando Gorges.

In other respects, Bachiler's reputation was such that in 1642, he was asked by Thomas Gorges, deputy governor of the Province of Maine, to act as arbitration " umpire " ( deciding judge ) in a Saco Court land dispute between George Cleeve and John Winter.

He was at the helm of the controversial Three Gorges Dam project.

The new municipality was formed to spearhead China's effort to economically develop its western provinces, as well as to coordinate the resettlement of residents from the reservoir areas of the Three Gorges Dam project.

He stated that a dam capable of generating 30 million horsepower ( 22 GW ) was possible downstream of the Three Gorges.

The dam is the largest operating hydroelectric facility in terms of annual energy generation, generating 94. 7 TWh in 2008 and 91. 6 TWh in 2009, while the annual energy generation of the Three Gorges Dam was 80. 8 TWh in 2008 and 79. 4 TWh in 2009.

( The most extreme case of tracking was in the Three Gorges in China where all boats had to be pulled upstream against the current of the Yangtze River.

The game series was banned in China because of the ordered destruction of HKCEC, the Three Gorges Dam, and terrorism at the Tsing Ma Bridge.

The Macleay Gorges Wilderness Area was declared in 1996 and extended in 1997.

The Riverside Trail was opened in April 1997 to permit vehicle access to the Macleay Gorges area.

* Youdales Hut is a historic pioneering timber slab walled hut that was built in the 1930s on a small pastoral run established in the Kunderang Gorges.

First settled as early as 1623, the southern part of Kittery was once called Champernowne's after Sir Francis Champernowne, a prominent merchant adventurer and cousin of Sir Ferdinando Gorges, the prime mover behind settlement north of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

Haselrig was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Hesilrige, 1st Baronet ( alternative spellings " Heselrig " and " Haselrigge "), of Noseley Hall, Noseley, Leicestershire, and of Frances Gorges, daughter of Sir William Gorges, of Alderton, Northamptonshire.

A special sub-set of this is development-induced displacement, in which the forced migrant was forced out their home because of economically driven projects like that of the Three Gorges Dam in China and various Indian dams.

The town, which was surveyed in 1848 and gazetted in 1849, was established to provide a market and administration for the farms, but soon after gold was discovered at nearby Rocky River and Gara Gorges, and a gold rush ensued, enlarging the town rapidly in the 1850s.

Sir Ferdinando Gorges ( 1565 – 1647 ), the " Father of English Colonization in North America ", was an early English colonial entrepreneur and founder of the Province of Maine in 1622, although Gorges himself never set foot in the New World.

Dai Qing, born in August 1941, ( Chinese: 戴晴, Pinyin: Dài Qíng ) is a journalist and activist for China-related issues ; most significantly against the Three Gorges Dam Project.

Ferdinando Gorges died a destitute man in 1647 and is buried in Long Ashton church.

Fourthly, at Wraxall in 1629, Elizabeth Lady Smyth, daughter of Sir Thomas Gorges and the Marchioness of Northampton, and widow of Sir Hugh Smyth of Ashton Court.

William died before his son and heir Theobald ( 1303 – 1349 ) had reached his majority of 21, and the infant Theobald was granted in wardship to Ralph III de Gorges, 1st Baron Gorges ( d. 1224 ) of Knighton, Isle of Wight and Wraxall, Somerset.

He thus made his nephew Theobald II Russell his heir, apparently with the provision that he should change his name to Gorges, bear the ancient Gorges armourials and inherit the bulk of the Gorges lands, including Wraxall, Somerset, 6 miles west of Bristol.

Also shown here are the arms of the Gorges family of Knighton, Isle of Wight and Wraxall, Somerset, from a co-heiress of which the Cheyney's were descended, blazoned as Argent, a gurges azure.

* 23 July-After a court battle, King Charles I handed over title to the North American colony of Massachusetts to Sir Ferdinando Gorges, one of the founders of Plymouth Council for New England.

In 1622, Gorges received a land patent, along with John Mason, from the Plymouth Council for New England for the Province of Maine, the original boundaries of which were between the Merrimack and Kennebec rivers.

Christopher Levett, early English explorer of the New England Coast, was an agent for Gorges, as well as a member for the crown's Plymouth Council for New England.

Ferdinando Gorges's son was Robert Gorges, Governor-General of New England from 1623 – 1624.

But Robert Gorges was seen with some suspicion by American colonists, who were skeptical of Gorges ' almost feudal idea of governance and settlement, and ultimately Gorges returned to England.

Mason and Gorges, neither of whom ever came to New England, divided their claims along the Piscataqua River in 1629.

The first patent establishing the Province of Maine was granted on August 10, 1622 to Ferdinando Gorges and John Mason by the Plymouth Council for New England, which itself had been granted a royal patent by James I to the coast of North America between the 40th to the 48th parallel " from sea to sea ".

In 1639 Gorges obtained a renewed patent, the Gorges Patent, for the area between the Piscataqua and Kennebec Rivers, in the form of a royal charter from Charles I of England.

His colleague John Whitson wrote in October 1621 on the " business of Sir Ferdinando Gorges ' referring to the restraint of trade with New England as a result of articles and orders of the president and council for New England, which the merchants " in noe sorte did like ".

In 1622, Mason and Sir Ferdinando Gorges received a patent from the Council for New England for all the territory lying between the Merrimack and Kennebec rivers.

When the colony's governing magistrates drafted a response to the charges raised by Gorges, Dudley was alone in opposing language referring to the king as his " sacred majesty ", and to bishops of the Church of England as " Reverend Bishops ".

Legend recounts that angels then descended from Heaven to collect the pieces and place them in a boat which, miraculously, floated downstream into the Garonne and on to where the Tarn flows into it ; then up the Tarn to its confluence with the Aveyron and up through the Vallis Nobilis of the Aveyron Gorges to the confluence of the little Bonnette river at a point where the ancient lands and bishroprics of Rouergue, the Albigeois, and Quercy meet.

By 1644 Cleeve had become deputy governor of Lygonia, a rival province to that of Gorges ' in Maine established from a resurrected Plough Patent, and asked Bachiler to be its minister at Casco.

Funding sources include the Three Gorges Dam Construction Fund, profits from the Gezhouba Dam, loans from the China Development Bank, loans from domestic and foreign commercial banks, corporate bonds, and revenue before and after the dam is fully operational.

Additional charges were assessed as follows: Every province receiving power from the Three Gorges Dam has to pay ¥ 7. 00 per MWh extra.

Boats on the Yangtze River, upstream from the Three Gorges

The Yangtze River enters Hubei from the west via the Three Gorges ; the eastern half of the Three Gorges ( Xiling Gorge and part of Wu Gorge ) lies in western Hubei, while the western half is in neighbouring Chongqing.

In 1908, York Harbor proposed secession from York, first as a new town called Yorktown, then as Gorges after Sir Ferdinando Gorges, the early proprietor of Maine.

It is also a major relocation centre for migrants from Three Gorges Dam area.

The urban area of Wanzhou, located in the northern part of the district and on the upper reaches of the Three Gorges on the Yangtze River, is 228 km away from downtown Chongqing.

Other financiers included Sir Ferdinando Gorges, the military governor of Plymouth ; much of the information about the events in the colony comes from his letters and memoirs.

At the time, Chongqing was reeling from problems such as air and water pollution, unemployment, poor public health, and complications from the Three Gorges Dam.