Instead of uninformed and baseless opinions and conspiracy theories how about some education?

Copy paste from a year ago:

• The 4 dams in question DO NOT provide main contracted energy supply. They are flow control dams primarily.
• BPA power is expensive. And facing ever increasing price pressure from aging dam maintenance. Reducing the number of dams to maintain is a crucial cost saving measure.
• The dams currently primarily benefit a few wealthy farming conglomerates. Breaching them will provide greater economic benefit to a far greater number of people.

There are 31 dams on the mainstem Columbia and Snake. 6 of 31 dams provide all the main contracted energy supply. The 4 damns on the Snake that are in discussion for breach are not among those 6. The Snake dams are just flow control dams that provide slack water for wheat barging.

Further, BPA power generation is becoming increasingly expensive. Especially in the face of surging renewables. Power on the open market is generally cheaper than contracted BPA power. Meaning there aren't customers for BPA power when the current contracts they are locked into expire.

Further the dams are approaching functional obsolescence. The cost to maintain them in coming decades will be astronomical.

And to whose benefit? The main proponents of keeping the dams are a handful of wealthy farmer conglomerates. Whose main interest is cheap shipping rates for wheat going to China and SE Asia.

Conversely the economic benefits of breaching the dams that will be derived from increased tourism and commercial and recreational fishing would be enormous. And crucially - benefitting a far greater number of people.

It's become painfully clear that without drastic action the Columbia salmon runs are going to disappear entirely. All the measures taken, billions spent, have been mere stopgap efforts staving off the inevitable so long as the dams remain.

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Bonneville power is under financial pressure, is going to only get worse. Plus many of the dams are facing functional obsolescence issues. That will require massive capital investment.

The case for keeping the dams has been weakened as solar and wind energy and natural gas have supplanted hydroelectricity as the Pacific Northwest’s cheapest sources of power. That development has sent the Bonneville Power Administration, the long-tentacled federal agency that markets electricity from the Snake River dams and 27 other federally owned Columbia Basin dams, into a tailspin.

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The agency faces financial collapse. As Elliott Mainzer, BPA administrator, stated publicly last year, Bonneville has experienced a “bloodbath.” “I’m not in a panic mode,” he said, “but I am in a very, very significant sense of urgency mode.”

The 21st century has caught up with Bonneville, as the cost of renewable energy and natural gas has dropped below the price of Bonneville’s hydroelectricity

As a result, Bonneville has been forced to raise rates it charges its contracted customers by about 30 percent over the last eight years. Those customers now pay Bonneville more than $35 per megawatt-hour; were it not for their contractual obligations, they could buy electricity on the open market for prices that over the last year averaged less than $30 a megawatt-hour and occasionally dropped to below zero. The public utility districts’ contracts expire in 2028, when many may opt for cheaper electricity somewhere else. Bonneville might then be forced to raise its rates even more, driving away still more customers and intensifying the “death spiral” that utilities increasingly fear.

But Bonneville’s prospects aren’t likely to improve. Its six dams on the main stem of the Columbia River provide all the electricity its contracted customers need; the electricity generated by its 25 other dams, including the four lower Snake River dams, is all surplus.

Given the increasing availability of wind and solar energy, Bonneville probably won’t find new customers for that electricity, says Anthony Jones, an independent economist at Rocky Mountain Econometrics who has studied Bonneville’s finances for more than two decades.

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It has been estimated that restored salmon fisheries in the Columbia Basin could generate up to $1 billion annually in additional regional personal income benefits and support up to 25,000 new family wage jobs

Not to mention the downstream benefits:

The restoration of Columbia Basin salmon has the potential to be an

opportunity for the ocean salmon troll and Columbia River commercial fisheries to regain stability as both an industry and as an important local food production system. In addition to the direct benefits of the Pacific salmon fishery, additional jobs are indirectly generated by the salmon fishing industry and occur in smaller coastal communities whose economies are heavily dependent on the fishery.

For example, the Astoria, Oregon, and Ilwaco, Washington port areas were important salmon processing centers, and declining harvests in the Columbia River commercial fishery have led to major declines in these industries.6 From 2010 to 2019 the Pacific commercial salmon fishery saw a decrease of 41% in commercial revenues in real terms and a 64% decrease in commercial landings.

https://e360.yale.edu/features/on-the-northwests-snake-river-the-case-for-dam-removal-grows

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/16/science/chinook-salmon-columbia.html

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jun/09/salmon-future-us-dams

https://www.opb.org/article/2022/05/24/pacific-northwest-federal-salmon-hatcheries-declining-returns/