Mountains to be covered by frozen wastewater

Yesterday, the Supreme Court dashed an effort by American Indian nations to halt an Arizona ski resort from desecrating sacred mountains by coating them with artificial snow made of frozen wastewater.

In doing so, the Supremes upheld the unasked-for judicial activism of the staunchly corporatist 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which had allowed the resort to cover the mountains with the wastewater.

Do our courts even believe in the rule of law anymore? Environmental laws are pretty clear that you can't cover the mountains with snow manufactured from treated toilet water - especially when the mountains are in a national forest. There are also laws to protect cultural sites and religious freedom - which the court has run roughshod over.

All this so affluent tourists can have their ski resort open for a few more weeks each year.

The Southwest is in an extended drought, and a ski resort wants to use wastewater to make snow when the water could be used for something else (assuming it's as safe as they claim)?

Hundreds of years of genocide against American Indians wasn't enough to satisfy our court system, I guess.

(Source: http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2009/06/08/20090608snowbowl0608-onl.html)