27 May 2022
Katrina Langbein
[FYI request #19344 email]
Dear Katrina
Thank you for your Official Information Act request, received on 16 May 2022. You requested:
Please supply the following information under the [Official Information Act (OIA) Any and
all Information known or held by you or your department in any format including written
documents, reports, memos, letters, notes, emails, draft documents, non-written
information
and
unrecorded
information
regarding:
Geoengineering carried out by Air New Zealand planes, while flying over NZ air space.
Especially the practice of Solar Radiation Management, using stratospheric sulfate
aerosols to create a dimming effect and impact climate, known as STRATOSPHERIC
SULFATE AEROSOLS GEO-ENGINEERING (SAG-SRM) - from January 2020 until now.
Please supply the following information under the [Official Information Act (OIA) Any and
all Information known or held by you or your department in any format including written
documents, reports, memos, letters, notes, emails, draft documents, non-written
information
and
unrecorded
information
regarding:
the practice of artificially modifying the climate using reflective nano-materials, such as
aluminium, to reflect sunlight via dispersal from jet aircraft that expand into reflective
artificial clouds. from January 2020 until now.
I do not hold any information covered by your request. Therefore your request is refused under
section 18(e) of the OIA on the grounds that the document alleged to contain the information
requested does not exist or, despite reasonable efforts to locate it, cannot be found.
This reply addresses the information you requested. You have the right to ask the Ombudsman
to investigate and review my decision.
Yours sincerely
Hon Grant Robertson
Minister of Finance