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Date, location and purpose of deployment of HAARP research buoy from RV Tangaroa

Susan made this Official Information request to National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Limited

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From: Susan

Dear National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Limited,

Figure 4 in this document https://vlfstanford.ku.edu.tr/research_t... shows a group of Stanford University students involved in HAARP research standing on the deck of NIWA's ship RV Tangaroa, in front of a large metal buoy that they were about to deploy.

Given that :

(a) HAARP technology is now available at sites all over the world (please see https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer... ) -- and the sites at which this ionospheric heating technology is available include one installation just south of Longreach in Queensland and another somewhat east of Sandstone in WA

(b) the potential uses of HAARP technology as a heater of the ionosphere are presently of great public interest

would you please tell the NZ taxpayers who pay for RV Tangaroa
1. When this buoy was deployed
2. Where this buoy was deployed
3. Why this buoy was deployed -- what was the aim of the experiment involving the buoy and what was the result of that experiment.

Since NIWA is nominally a research institution and should thus have been very interested in the research involving the buoy, it would be utterly implausible to reply to this request with the much-used words "NIWA holds no information" on the matter. At the very least, RV Tangaroa has a log book that should answer questions 1 and 2. And if NIWA, a Crown Research Institute, were to allow a group of American university researchers to use their ship without wanting to know the details of the experiment for which it was used, that would surely demonstrate reprehensible incompetence on NIWA's part.

Thus, it is extremely unlikely that NIWA as an institution does not KNOW the answers to the three questions above. So would you please tell us those answers.

Yours faithfully,

Susan

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Kia ora Susan,

We acknowledge receipt of your request.

We will respond as soon as possible and no later than 18 April, being 20 working days after the day your request was received.

Ngā mihi,
Caroline

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From: Enquiries
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Kia ora Susan,

Thank you for your request.

The buoy was deployed in April 2004, within 50 nautical miles of 174.6 degrees East, 56.57 degrees South in about 5,500 metres water depth. The buoy was used for very low frequency radio wave observations before being retrieved in January 2005. NIWA does not hold any information on the result of the project.

Please note, under section 28(3) of the Act, you have the right to seek an investigation and review by the Ombudsman of this decision.

Ngā mihi,
Caroline

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From: Susan

Dear Caroline,

Many thanks for the information that the particular buoy I asked about was deployed (a) 19 years ago (b) considerably to the south and somewhat to the east of New Zealand and (c) was retrieved (again by Tangaroa)? 8 months after it was deployed.

Yours sincerely,

Susan

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