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Arizona Snowbowl resort has fought with local tribes for years over plans to use purified waste water to make snow.
The decade long battle between Arizona Snowbowl ski area and indigenous tribes in the area has taken a new twist.
A Navajo tribe is considering purchasing the ski area in order to stop controversial snowmaking plans, and they are currently having internal discussions on how best to proceed.
The two sides have fought a long series of court battles over plans by the ski area to use recycled and purified waste water to make snow on their slopes, which the tribes hold as sacred and thus regard the snowmaking plan as offensive to their beliefs. Successive courts have decided alternatively in favour of either side, most recently coming down on the side of the ski area.
Arizona Snowbowl is located near Flagstaff, Arizona, in the Southwestern United States.
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It’ll never happen, they still have dirt roads that need paving, kids with no access to school – buying a ski resort is not high on their priority list.