Kia ora,

On behalf of Hon Dr Megan Woods, thank you for your email.  

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Ngâ mihi,
Office of Hon Dr Megan Woods

Minister of Housing | Minister for Infrastructure | Minister of Energy &
Resources | Minister for Building and Construction | Associate Minister of
Finance | MP for Wigram

Private Bag 18041 |Parliament Buildings | Wellington 6160 | New Zealand

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OIA23-135

Dear Chris,

I am writing to acknowledge receipt of your Official Information Act request dated the 6th of September 2023. You have requested the following information:

"Please provide all of the known available information relating to the following

- Recyclable uses of wind turbines (if any)
- Current tip sites for redundant turbines - where have these been disposed of to date or are they still on the wind farms
- Total power generation per hectare of land required
- Efficiency - ie how much of the time are wind farms generating power - 20%, 30%, 40%?
- Environmental impact assessments of off-shore wind farms
- Total number of solar farms approved
- Total power generation per hectare of land required
- Efficiency - ie how much of the time are solar farms generating power as above
- Current dumping grounds for solar panels and environmental impact assessment of solar farms specifically looking at land contamination

Can you also please provide the carbon footprint from start to finish for the mining, extraction, manufacturing, transport, supply chains, installation for solar and wind farms. In addition to that can you also provide how the government

- Tackles exploitation risks in their operations and supply chains for solar panels and wind turbines
- Specifically looking for supply chains for solar farms bulk that require rare earth minerals mined in third world countries contributing to modern slavery

Is it the Ministers view that solar and wind farms are less harmful to the environment than farming and grazing animals? We have to be living in clown world if that is the case. Solar farms are an eyesore to a country that cares about the environment."

We received your request on 06/09/2023. We will endeavour to respond to your request as soon as possible and in any event no later than 04/10/2023, being 20 working days after the day your request was received. If we are unable to respond to your request by then, we will notify you of an extension of that timeframe.

Kind regards,

Office of Hon Dr Megan Woods
Minister of Housing | Minister for Infrastructure | Minister of Energy & Resources | Minister for Building and Construction | Associate Minister of Finance

Phone: 04 817 8705 | Email: [Megan Woods request email]
Private Bag 18041 |Parliament Buildings | Wellington 6160 | New Zealand

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Kia ora Chris,

 

Please see attached a letter from Hon Dr Megan Woods, Minister of Energy
and Resources in response to your Official Information Act request of 6
September.

 

Ngā mihi,

Iris

 

 

 

Iris Millington-Bree

Private Secretary (Building and Construction) 

 

Office of Hon Dr Megan Woods

Minister of Housing | Minister for Infrastructure | Minister of Energy &
Resources | Minister for Building and Construction | Associate Minister of
Finance

Private Bag 18041 | Parliament Buildings | Wellington 6160 | New Zealand

 

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