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Republican Representative Lisa Fink from District 27 has introduced House Bill 2056, which will prohibit various forms of geoengineering in the state of Arizona. The bill eliminates the equipment license fee and application fee currently collected by the state of Arizona for weather modification activities, redirecting those funds from the Water Resource Fund to carry out the purposes of the bill.
The bill prohibits government agencies, research projects, universities, public or private organizations, and the military from conducting weather modification activities within Arizona. It also requires the Director of the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality to encourage the public—through newspapers in general circulation—to document, collect evidence of, and report geoengineering activity across the state. The director will be required to initiate an emergency response to all credible reports of geoengineering. Peace officers who receive credible evidence must also forward that information to the director.
Environmental interests oppose
Among the 41 individuals registered in opposition to the bill in the Request to Speak system are several prominent environmental organizations. These include the Grand Canyon Chapter of the Sierra Club, the League of Conservation Voters, the National Organization for Women, and various environmental activists. The Salt River Project is also registered in opposition, along with several water user municipalities and water augmentation authorities.
Currently, 217 people are registered in support of the bill. You can add your name and submit your position through the Request to Speak system.
The Larger Context
The upper and lower Colorado River basins are at the center of the nation’s largest environmental initiative, one driven by international interests with the ultimate goal of restoring a free-flowing Colorado River to the Gulf of California. Environmental groups have spent decades acquiring water rights and renegotiating policies in the watershed to send water downstream in support of UNESCO biosphere reserves and wetlands of international importance in the Colorado River Delta. This includes the creation of taxpayer-funded weather modification programs to enhance snowpack and produce excess water; policies that incentivize American municipalities to cut usage and return water to Mexico; the removal of dams along the Colorado River and the draining of reservoirs; and the implementation of alternatives that meet Sustainable Development Goal 6A, such as desalination in Mexico for industrial and municipal water supply in the United States.
International environmental interests are deeply embedded in Arizona’s water policy, and this bill represents a direct challenge to the globalist agenda that threatens Western water users.
Weather Modification
Weather modification has long been dismissed as a conspiracy theory. However, there are over 80 years of scientific research and development in geoengineering. Arizona has been used as a testing ground for several toxic compounds and nanoparticles during geoengineering studies aimed at manipulating the weather since the 1940s. I have written extensively about the history of weather modification in Arizona and the impact of international policies on water use in the West.
Two undeniable examples of weather modification in Arizona include:
- The Salt River Project, which uses cloud seeding in the Salt River Basin. The first cloud seeding experiments in this area involved dropping dry ice and silver iodide over Roosevelt Lake in the 1940s.
- The Central Arizona Project Canal, which supports cloud seeding in the upper Colorado River Basin states of Utah, Colorado, and Wyoming. Arizona taxpayers fund hundreds of ground-based cloud seeding generators to increase snowpack in the basin.
Arizona ski resorts also engage in weather modification to enhance slope conditions.
VIDEO: Watch Alex Jones from Info Wars and Dane Wigington from Geo Engineering Watch explain why this law is important.
Read Arizona House Bill 2056
You can see all of the information about this bill on the Arizona legislature’s website. Visit the bill status inquiry page to read the current updates. You can also read the proposed version of this bill in its entirety below.
Please contact your state legislators and urge them to support this bill.
Original Version
PREFILED JAN 08 2025 REFERENCE TITLE: geoengineering; prohibition State of Arizona House of Representatives Fifty-seventh Legislature First Regular Session 2025 HB 2056 Introduced by Representative
Fink An
Act amending section 45-117, Arizona
Revised Statutes; repealing title 45, chapter 9, Arizona Revised Statutes;
amending title 49, chapter 1, article 1, Arizona Revised Statutes, by adding
section 49-119; relating to climate modification. (TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE) Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona: Section 1. Section 45-117, Arizona Revised
Statutes, is amended to read: 45-117. Water resources fund; purpose; monies held in trust A. The water resources fund is established to be
maintained in perpetuity consisting of: 1. Except as provided in section 45-113,
subsection F, monies received pursuant to sections 45-113, 45-115,
45-116, 45-183, 45-273, 45-292, 45-411.01, 45-467,
45-476.01, 45-595, 45-612, 45-703, 45-871.01, 45-874.01,
45-1021, 45-1041, and
45-1205, 45-1603 and 45-1605. 2. Monies appropriated by the legislature to the
water resources fund. 3. Gifts, grants and donations to the fund from any
public or private source. 4. Interest and other income received from investing
monies in the fund. B. Monies in the fund are subject to legislative
appropriation. Monies remaining in the fund at the end of the fiscal year
remain in the fund and are exempt from the provisions of section 35-190
relating to lapsing of appropriations. C. Monies in the fund shall be used exclusively by
the department of water resources to carry out the
purposes of this title and shall not be appropriated for any other purpose. D. The director shall administer the fund. On
notice from the director, the state treasurer shall invest and divest the
monies in the fund as provided by section 35-313 and monies earned from
investment shall be credited to the fund. E. Any fee, assessment or other levy that is
authorized by law or administrative rule and that is collected and deposited in
the water resources fund shall be held in trust. The monies in the fund may be
used only for the purposes prescribed by statute and shall not be appropriated
or transferred by the legislature to fund the general operations of this state
or to otherwise meet the obligations of the general fund of this state. This
subsection does not apply to any taxes or other levies that are imposed
pursuant to title 42 or 43. Sec. 2. Repeal Title 45, chapter 9, Arizona Revised
Statutes, is repealed. Sec. 3. Title 49, chapter 1, article 1, Arizona
Revised Statutes, is amended by adding section 49-119, to read: 49-119. Geoengineering; prohibition; public reporting; notice; violation;
classification; civil penalties; definitions A. Notwithstanding any other law, a
person may not engage in geoengineering. The director shall investigate any
credible reports of geoengineering in this state. B. This section applies to each
person in this state, including all of the following: 1. A Government agency. 2. A Research project. 3. A University. 4. A Public or private organization. 5. A Military force. C. The director shall actively
encourage the public to monitor, document and report any instances of
geoengineering in this state. The director may post notice in any newspaper of
general circulation encouraging the public to collect evidence of
geoengineering and report any information gathered to the director. D. Any person who gathers evidence of
geoengineering in this state shall submit the evidence, including the location
of the evidence gathered, by email or in writing to the director, any peace
officer or any public official. E. Any peace officer or public
official who receives evidence as prescribed by this section and has reasonable
grounds to suspect a violation of this section shall forward the evidence
within TWENTY-FOUR hours after receipt to the director. F. Within two hours of the director’s
receipt of credible reports of geoengineering, the director shall conduct
emergency measures to determine whether geoengineering has occurred at the
location indicated by the evidence. If the director determines a person has
violated this section, regardless of approval of the federal government, the
director shall immediately issue a formal notice to the person stating that
geoengineering is prohibited in this state and issue an order requiring the
person to cease all geoengineering activities. A person that receives an order
shall cease any activity noted by the director as geoengineering until the
person demonstrates that the activity is consistent with the laws of this
state. G. The director shall investigate any
credible reports of excessive electromagnetic radiation or fields caused by
human activity in any part of the spectrum, including radiofrequency,
microwave, maser, infrared, laser and ionizing radiation, to ensure that there
has not been a violation of this section or the rules adopted pursuant to this
section. H. The director shall post any notice
that is issued pursuant to this section on the department’s website. I. Any person found to engage in
geoengineering in violation of this section shall be guilty of a class 4 felony
and liable for a civil penalty of not less than $500,000 per violation. Each
day that a person engages in geoengineering is a separate violation. J. For
the purposes of this section: 1. “aerosol
injection” means the release of reflective sulfate or other aerosol
particles in the stratosphere by high altitude planes, tethered ballons, high-altitude
blimps, artillery or other means. 2. “atmospheric polluting
activity” means any deliberate release of any type of aerosol, biological
agent, nonbiological agent, chaff, genetically modified agent, metal,
radioactive material, vapor, electromagnetic radiation or field, mechanical
vibration, particle of any size or any air pollutant that is regulated by this
state or any combination thereof that may have harmful consequences on human
health, the environment or agriculture. 3. “chaff” means aluminum-coated
silica glass fibers, typically dispersed in bundles that contain millions of
inhalable fibers that break apart and fall to the ground. 4. “cloud seeding” means a
type of weather modification that involves the deliberate introduction of
various substances into a cloud to induce or increase precipitation. 5. “geoengineering” means
the intentional manipulation of the environment through atmospheric polluting
activities to effect change on the earth’s atmosphere or surface, including all
of the following: (a) Weather
modification. (b) Aerosol
injection. (c) Cloud
seeding. (d) Solar
radiation modification. 6. “maser” means a device
that uses the simulated emission of radiation by excited atoms to amplify or
generate radiation in the microwave range. 7. “release”: (a) Means any
activity that results in the issuance of any type of aerosol, biological agent,
nonbiological agent, chaff, genetically modified agent, metal, radioactive
material, vapor, electromagnetic radiation or field, mechanical vibration, particle
of any size or any air pollutant regulated by this state or any combination
thereof. (b) includes
the emissions, transmission, discharge or injection of any nuclear biological,
chemical or physical agent into the ambient atmosphere. 8. “solar radiation
modification” means any attempt to reduce global temperatures by
reflecting more sunlight into space or allowing more infrared radiation from
earth to escape than would naturally occur. 9. “weather modification”
means the attempt to or the changing, controlling or interfering with the
natural development of cloud forms, precipitation, barometric pressure,
temperature, conductivity or other electromagnetic or sonic characteristic of
the atmosphere. A. The legislature finds that: 1. Atmospheric
polluting activities involving the intentional release of polluting emissions,
including weather modification, stratospheric aerosol injection, solar
radiation modification and other forms of geoengineering: 2. Endanger human health
and safety and the environment. 3. Threaten air, water,
soil and wildlife resources. 4. Disrupt agricultural
operations. 5. Potentially interfere
with aviation, state security and the economy of this state. B. Pursuant to the tenth
amendment of the United States Constitution, article II, section 3 of the
Arizona Constitution and the inherent right for citizens of this state to
engage in thoughtful deliberation and determine public policy by voting, the
citizens of this state do not consent to any unconstitutional actions or
efforts made by the federal government or international bodies that
intentionally release polluting emissions into this state’s atmosphere through
geoengineering, cloud seeding, weather modification or any other means. C. To preserve the safe and
healthful uses of this state’s atmosphere for its people, environment and
agriculture and to improve beneficial climate efforts, it is necessary to
prohibit geoengineering and to provide for enforcement and penalties for
violative activities.
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Watch the Arizona House Oversight Committee hearing on HB 2056
Notice how the representative from the Salt River Project insists that SRPs weather modification programs are studies.
