Jeez Rob, it is not that "balck and white".
I lived on the Columbia near Hermiston for 8 years and I agree that the water temps got pretty disgusting in August and September. But aren't you folks (Environmentalists) the same group that SCREAMED for Trojan to be shut down?? What are you going to do to power your house and your business? Burn coal? Let them build new nuke sites?
I personally believe that Wind power is criminally under-utilized, but then again there are "Environmentalists" that also scream about "those ugly, landscape ruining windmills" and some that also claim they hurt wildlife...... I see it as a no-win situation. We want the luxuries, but we want NO sacrifice to enjoy those luxuries.... I am not positively against breaching of the Snake dams, I just think that if it happens it will only empower the non-common sense group who then will go after the Columbia Dams, and although I would thoroughly enjoy seeing the mighty Columbia return to her natural state, I have enough sense to know that doing that would take most of what we take for granted away.
As far as blaming all this on the current admin (I am not a Bush lover by any means) is ridiculous also, since the 8 years of Clinton did not get us any closer to solving the conflict and he never got the dams breached while he was in power, so he needs just as much blame as the current Prez.....

MC