The Susitna Dam is a proposed hydroelectricity plan from the State of Alaska. The Governor of Alaska, on July 25, 2011, signed a bill to build the dam on the glacier-fed Susitna River.[10] The dam would become, if built to its full design height, the fifth tallest out of 850,000 dams on earth. The Susitna River, America’s 15th largest by volume, flows unimpeded for 300 miles from glacial mountains through one of the planet’s last wild landscapes to meet the Pacific near Anchorage.
Soon after the dam's construction was announced, the Coalition for Susitna Dam Alternatives was formed to fight its construction. It is their argument that recreation, nature and the town would be severely threatened by the dam, and have compared it to the Three Gorges Dam in China.