Salmo, CR salmon recovery is my specialty, and I understand every aspect of this issue, I know the players, and I know what they say.
I also know what is at stake here, spending $12 billion in the name of recovery, half that number is BPA's foregone power generation, with little to nothing to show for it can not continue.
I'm advocating that we stop letting BPA call the recovery shots, instead we need to start doing what the professionals have been saying for years, unblock the habitat and start spilling water in the spring.
FYI, hydro power is not considered green energy because of it's adverse effect on fish species.