Resort wants to use treated wastewater to supplement snow
This undated file photo shows the Yellowstone Club near Big Sky, Mont. (Erik Petersen/Bozeman Daily Chronicle via AP)
An exclusive Montana resort wants to turn sewage into snow so that its rich and famous members can ski its slopes in a winter season that's shrinking because of climate change.
The Yellowstone Club — a ski and golf resort just north of Yellowstone National Park that counts Bill Gates, Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel among its members — has asked the Montana Department of Environmental Quality for a permit to allow it to use wastewater for snowmaking operations on its ski slopes...
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