Applicant says it hopes to ‘ultimately end drought in the American West,’ while citizens say the project raises ‘serious concerns about potential consequences and possible effects on public health’
Dozens of local residents who showed up in person and online pushed back against precipitation enhancement company Rainmaker Technologies Corporation during a public hearing Tuesday morning at the Medford library on a proposed regional cloud-seeding project.
Rainmaker Technologies, based out of El Segundo, California, applied for a business application with the Oregon Department of Agriculture on Oct. 22 for proposed precipitation enhancement efforts in Jackson, Josephine, Douglas and Klamath counties, which would include using drones and manned aircraft to disperse ice-nucleating particles such as silver iodide into the clouds to boost rain and snowfall…