Usually it’s fairly easy to use the adage of “follow the money “ to understand how things get done, for example, logging companies getting the forest service to build logging roads or big oil using political clout to open up drilling leases. With the Snake River Dams, I’m having a hard time seeing how the economic interests involved have enough economic/political capital to perpetuate this drain on taxpayers and rate payers supporting this absurd subsidy and also denying the region all the benefits that healthier salmon runs would bring for as long as they have.
It must be Ike the resistance to taking the Elwa Dams out. I never understood why that took so long either.