The cost to remove the dams and cut off greenhouse-gas-free electricity capable of supplying 1,700 homes is $324.7 million.
The idea is to save the noble and endangered salmon which you can buy at the fish counter of just about any supermarket in the nation.
One could sympathize with the dream of rivers filled with good eating game fish running free to the sea but if one really believed CO2 and other gases from the coal and natural gas power plants, which will inevitably be used to replace the hydro-electric ones, are going to destroy Planet Earth, one would think that one might have a different set of priorities.
One would think that such a person would fight to save these dams at least until a wind-powered, solar cold-fusion plants became practical
But no, the same group that insists on privation to stop global warming insists on ripping down these dams.
Global warming is not happening. What is happening is a power play by those who are driven to rule others.
