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May 13, 2021

Yellowstone Club wants to use treated wastewater to make snow

By JUSTIN FRANZ
Kaiser Health News

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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