We would remove from S1065 the cloud seeding carve-out and the section about removing the weather modification taxing district, which S1167 took care of after being signed into law.
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From 1065 Statement of Purpose:
This bill prohibits unauthorized weather modification and solar radiation management activities in Idaho to protect the state’s environment and public health. Weather modification, including cloud seeding and solar radiation management, could have significant negative impacts on agriculture, water supplies, and public welfare if left unregulated.
The bill ensures that only authorized projects, such as those by the Idaho Water Resource Board, are allowed, providing oversight to mitigate risks associated with unauthorized weather manipulation.
Additionally, the bill removes an unused taxing district related to weather modification that has not been utilized since the 1970s, eliminating unnecessary bureaucratic structures.
FISCAL NOTE
This bill does not require any additional funding or resources from the State's General Fund, as it utilizes existing personnel and resources for enforcement and oversight.
Contact: Senator Tammy Nichols, Representative Joe Alfieri
Interesring and I agree. We need a few more Bonafide studies or stop for a year or two. The chemicals in ground / water may be negating any modicum of precipitation that has been stimulated.
We suffer physical symptoms from bloody noses, burning sinuses, watery eyes, to dry constant coughs. What's more frustrating, the many ways 1 taxpayer is funding chemical experimentation on himself. Our irrigation fees, our electricity fees, our taxes, and more fund our slow poisoning. Idaho has become the modern medical experimentation camp that we can't escape. iDWR and Idaho Power have made themselves into the Josef Mengele of cloudseeding. The hive mind is to build knowledge and wealth on the backs of people who dont have political power.
Thank you for bringing attention to this! My seasonal allergies have gotten worse and worse every year, how am I supposed to know this is not related? When it comes down to it, this is an experiment on the public and it’s not ok.
I would like it to be outlawed completely here. Cloud seeding without any oversight or study of environmental/health hazards repeats the government's dismal history of other environmental-impacted activities such as releasing ticks with Lyme disease into the US, creating future Superfund sites, etc. There should be much oversight of this harmful practice and those involved should be publicly exposed and questioned until public pressure causes them to stop.
Wonderful to have an article demanding accountability. Thank you! It is long overdue, but the GAO provides us with a sobering look into the gamed numbers and unproven science of cloud seeding. I’d argue we should take this a step further and ask that we look at this as a private property right infringement.
Many claim farmers want cloud seeding, but the 2024 curtailment prompted many farmers into looking at the cloud seeding program and water management. IDWR cannot claim cloud seeding is for agriculture while imposing a massive water curtailment AFTER scaling up cloud seeding infrastructure. Rumblings of Idaho Power releasing water at Milner dam for cloud seeding ROI from hydropower electricity was a question posed by some farmers. IGWA attorney asked for this evaluation in an IWRB meeting last winter. To my knowledge, only a PPT presentation was provided and no definitive ROI. GAO report explains how many of the predictions and numbers are justified through very unscientific means - possibly why this IDWR/IPC eval of cloud seeding is not available? But certainly something that must be delivered on and a clear cost/benefit evaluation of real data (many modeled approaches can be too easily manipulated). At any rate, there are MANY aspects to the cloud seeding program that just don’t add up. Thank you for taking the time to investigate.
Watching IDWR for decades I would have doubt their management. Idaho has far too much globalist input and following; do we know for an absolute and complete fact what they are using for ingredients? Only LP?
Just another boondoggle program sold on an unproven science to a legislature that didn't do their homework in the beginning. Much like a "well known" political science experiment that is proving in the end to have devastating effects. More than likely the cloud seeding junk ending up in our ground will also prove devastating as well in the long run. Stop the program until evidence proves out!
Cloud seeding needs to come to an end. Silver iodide no matter how severe or minor the effects may be, is still a poison. It not only affects the plants that our fish feed on, but also the plants and water that our big game eats. This would explain the massive decreases in the numbers of fish, deer and elk populations.
A waste of money is not the worst effect. Environmental experimentation with no permits, liability or follow-up studies. Only in Idaho would this be ignored. But the Covid experience has alerted the people to question and verify. The drought continues and the farce needs to stop now. Why do we insist on interfering with God’s sovereign design?
So much evidence of lack of efficacy and possible harms that authorities dismiss as conspiracy theories. Sound familiar?
This — and all other types of weather engineering — MUST STOP 🛑. See also “Cloud Seeding Experiment in Idaho” at https://tinyurl.com/4bup7n46 and “Read the Study” substack at https://readthestudy.substack.com/
Also, please revive a modified version of this bill from 2025, which never received the hearing it deserved: S1065 - Weather modification: https://legislature.idaho.gov/sessioninfo/2025/legislation/S1065/
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We would remove from S1065 the cloud seeding carve-out and the section about removing the weather modification taxing district, which S1167 took care of after being signed into law.
***
From 1065 Statement of Purpose:
This bill prohibits unauthorized weather modification and solar radiation management activities in Idaho to protect the state’s environment and public health. Weather modification, including cloud seeding and solar radiation management, could have significant negative impacts on agriculture, water supplies, and public welfare if left unregulated.
The bill ensures that only authorized projects, such as those by the Idaho Water Resource Board, are allowed, providing oversight to mitigate risks associated with unauthorized weather manipulation.
Additionally, the bill removes an unused taxing district related to weather modification that has not been utilized since the 1970s, eliminating unnecessary bureaucratic structures.
FISCAL NOTE
This bill does not require any additional funding or resources from the State's General Fund, as it utilizes existing personnel and resources for enforcement and oversight.
Contact: Senator Tammy Nichols, Representative Joe Alfieri
Kill it. Just another joke of a government program. What's next, blocking the sun? Oh wait, ...
Please sign my petition to BAN could seeding in the state of Idaho!
I need as many signatures as I can get!! Thank you so much!!
Please sign our petition to BAN cloud seeding in the state of Idaho!!
https://chng.it/M6Lx8GFMVf
Interesring and I agree. We need a few more Bonafide studies or stop for a year or two. The chemicals in ground / water may be negating any modicum of precipitation that has been stimulated.
Please consider signing my petition to BAN cloud seeding in the state of Idaho!
Change.org/BanCloudSeeding
Done.
We suffer physical symptoms from bloody noses, burning sinuses, watery eyes, to dry constant coughs. What's more frustrating, the many ways 1 taxpayer is funding chemical experimentation on himself. Our irrigation fees, our electricity fees, our taxes, and more fund our slow poisoning. Idaho has become the modern medical experimentation camp that we can't escape. iDWR and Idaho Power have made themselves into the Josef Mengele of cloudseeding. The hive mind is to build knowledge and wealth on the backs of people who dont have political power.
Please consider signing my petition to ban cloud seeding in the state of Idaho!
Change.org/BanCloudSeeding
Thank you for bringing attention to this! My seasonal allergies have gotten worse and worse every year, how am I supposed to know this is not related? When it comes down to it, this is an experiment on the public and it’s not ok.
Please look over the bills that almost made it in other states:
https://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/BillInfo/Default.aspx?BillNumber=HB1112
We can work with groups like Stand For Health Freedom on these issues.
https://standforhealthfreedom.com/actions/hb1112/
Thanks for keeping this topic on the minds of the people!
Please consider signing my petition to ban cloud seeding in the state of Idaho!
Change.org/BanCloudSeeding
Check out this substack
https://open.substack.com/pub/readthestudy/p/cloud-seeding-experiment-in-idaho-1cf?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=3s4cng
I would like it to be outlawed completely here. Cloud seeding without any oversight or study of environmental/health hazards repeats the government's dismal history of other environmental-impacted activities such as releasing ticks with Lyme disease into the US, creating future Superfund sites, etc. There should be much oversight of this harmful practice and those involved should be publicly exposed and questioned until public pressure causes them to stop.
Please consider signing my petition to ban cloud seeding in the state of Idaho!
Change.org/BanCloudSeeding
No more cloud seeding until we know more about it. I want to know what it’s doing to our health and what it’s doing to the environment.
Please sign our petition to ban cloud seeding in the state of Idaho!
https://chng.it/M6Lx8GFMVf
I already signed it. I will pass it along.
Thank you so much!
Wonderful to have an article demanding accountability. Thank you! It is long overdue, but the GAO provides us with a sobering look into the gamed numbers and unproven science of cloud seeding. I’d argue we should take this a step further and ask that we look at this as a private property right infringement.
Many claim farmers want cloud seeding, but the 2024 curtailment prompted many farmers into looking at the cloud seeding program and water management. IDWR cannot claim cloud seeding is for agriculture while imposing a massive water curtailment AFTER scaling up cloud seeding infrastructure. Rumblings of Idaho Power releasing water at Milner dam for cloud seeding ROI from hydropower electricity was a question posed by some farmers. IGWA attorney asked for this evaluation in an IWRB meeting last winter. To my knowledge, only a PPT presentation was provided and no definitive ROI. GAO report explains how many of the predictions and numbers are justified through very unscientific means - possibly why this IDWR/IPC eval of cloud seeding is not available? But certainly something that must be delivered on and a clear cost/benefit evaluation of real data (many modeled approaches can be too easily manipulated). At any rate, there are MANY aspects to the cloud seeding program that just don’t add up. Thank you for taking the time to investigate.
https://readthestudy.substack.com/p/cloud-seeding-and-fires
Please consider signing my petition to ban cloud seeding in the state of Idaho!
Change.org/BanCloudSeeding
Watching IDWR for decades I would have doubt their management. Idaho has far too much globalist input and following; do we know for an absolute and complete fact what they are using for ingredients? Only LP?
Please consider signing my petition to ban cloud seeding in the state of Idaho!
Change.org/BanCloudSeeding
Just another boondoggle program sold on an unproven science to a legislature that didn't do their homework in the beginning. Much like a "well known" political science experiment that is proving in the end to have devastating effects. More than likely the cloud seeding junk ending up in our ground will also prove devastating as well in the long run. Stop the program until evidence proves out!
Please sign our petition to BAN cloud seeding in the state of Idaho!! If we all get loud enough, they will have to hear us!!
https://chng.it/M6Lx8GFMVf
Cloud seeding needs to come to an end. Silver iodide no matter how severe or minor the effects may be, is still a poison. It not only affects the plants that our fish feed on, but also the plants and water that our big game eats. This would explain the massive decreases in the numbers of fish, deer and elk populations.
Please consider signing my petition to BAN cloud seeding in the state of Idaho!
Thank you so much!
https://chng.it/M6Lx8GFMVf
I signed. There's 445 signatures now
Thank you so much!!
A waste of money is not the worst effect. Environmental experimentation with no permits, liability or follow-up studies. Only in Idaho would this be ignored. But the Covid experience has alerted the people to question and verify. The drought continues and the farce needs to stop now. Why do we insist on interfering with God’s sovereign design?
Please consider signing my petition to ban cloud seeding in the state of Idaho!
Change.org/BanCloudSeeding