Huge Megadam planned! not in South America or Asia but in the USA

[auroraglacialis]

http://www.newscientist.com/article/...-40-years.html

Later this month, Alaskan authorities will file plans in Washington DC for a 213-metre megadam on one of the country's last remaining wild rivers: the Susitna. If approved, it would be the country's first hydroelectric megadam for 40 years, and its fifth tallest, just 8 metres shy of the Hoover dam.
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The Susitna dam was first planned in the 1970s, but was dropped on both cost and environmental grounds.
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In 1995, Daniel Beard, head of the US Bureau of Reclamation, the nation's main constructor of dams, declared the US dam-building era over. He cited growing environmental concerns. Dozens of dams have since been torn down to revive fisheries and reinstate river habitats.
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Two years ago, then-governor Sarah Palin revived the scheme.

This is triple crazy.
For once - seriously? another megadam even though it is all known that these do not play well with wildlife?
Then - that very project was already declared ecologically disruptive in the 1970ies, a time when environmentalism was just beginning to take hole in government policies and now they just hink it has become benign?
And lastly Sarah Palin? Really? I mean was she not one of those climate change deniers? What made her look into reneables - I guess it must be that they can make a renewable energy project that is just as devastating as coal mining - also probably a lot of $$ signs in the eyes looking at how much heavy industry will come to Alaska to smelter metals and do all the other stuff that take so much electricity.

Anyways - I guess now is the chance for US citizens to get active against this - they dont have to go to Brazil or Asia or Chile and cannot claim that there is little they can do because the problem is happening outside their country. This is in YOUR country, folks.