Residents urge Mount Shasta council to investigate alleged aerial 'spraying' and commission independent testing

Tatiana Gonzalez, an herbalist and AI consultant, told the Mount Shasta City Council that independent snow tests "showed 10 times the legal amount of barium and aluminum," and urged officials to authorize testing rather than wait until contamination is discovered by outside investigators. "If we do not test and the contamination exists and it eventually becomes public… the community will ask, did you know?" Gonzalez said.

Speakers across 14 public‑comment slots asked the council to treat the reports seriously. "Mount Shasta is not an ordinary mountain," Cheyenne, a resident, said, describing the mountain as sacred to Indigenous peoples and warning that springs and snowmelt from Mount Shasta feed the Sacramento River and downstream water supplies. "What we protect here, we protect for 40,000,000 people downstream," she said.

Anastasia Stevens, who displayed a printed copy of U.S. Patent No. 5,003,186, read passages that she said describe a method "for reducing atmospheric warming… by seeding the atmosphere…