OIAD-454
Chris McCashin
[FYI request #20917 email]
Dear Chris McCashin
Thank you for your correspondence of 19 October 2022 to the Climate Change Commission
(the Commission) requesting the following under the Of icial Information Act 1982 (the Act):
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 2010 until now.
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 to reflect sunlight via
dispersal from jet aircraft that expand into reflective artificial clouds from January
2010 until now.
Please also provide any and all water quality research reports, specifically looking at
heavy metals in water and contributory factors to metals in water.
Please also provide any and all reports completed on impact of Geoengineering on
weather patterns, climate change, risks & benefits, etc etc. Effectively any and all
information on Geonengineering and the impacts it is having on NZ weather.
On 3 November 2022, part of your request was transferred to the Ministry for the
Environment (the Ministry) for response in accordance with section 14(b)(i ) of the Act, as
some of the information you requested is more closely connected with the functions of the
Ministry. The part of your request that was transferred was:
any and all water quality research reports, specifically looking at heavy metals in
water and contributory factors to metals in water.
The Ministry has interpreted this part of your request to mean all water quality research
reports authored, or contributed to, by the Ministry.
The Ministry has identified two documents in scope of this part of your request, as listed in
the attached document schedule. These documents are publicly available and are therefore
being refused under section 18(d) of the Act. Links to these documents have been provided
to you in the attached document schedule.
You may wish to contact regional councils, Waka Kotahi - NZ Transport Agency, and Te
Manatū Waka - Ministry of Transport as they may also hold information relevant to this part
of your request.
You have the right to seek an investigation and review by the Of ice of the Ombudsman of
my decision to withhold information relating to this request, in accordance with section 28(3)
of the Act. The relevant details can be found on their website at:
www.ombudsman.parliament.nz. Please note that due to the public interest in our work the Ministry for the Environment
publishes responses to requests for official information on our
OIA responses page shortly
after the response has been sent. If you have any queries about this, please feel free to
contact our Ministerial Services team:
[email address]. Yours sincerely
Hayden Johnston
Director - Water and Land Use Policy
Document schedule
Document Document Content
Decisions
OIA sections applied
no.
date
1
18 April
Heavy metal Refused
18(d) - the information
2019
load in
requested is publicly available
coastal and
at:
estuarine
stats.govt.nz/indicators/heavy-
sediment
metal-load-in-coastal-and-
estuarine-sediment/
2
16 April
River water
Refused
18(d) - the information
2020
quality:
requested is publicly available
heavy metals
at:
stats.govt.nz/indicators/river-
water-quality-heavy-metals
