Kia ora Ben,

 

On behalf of the Ministry of Transport, I acknowledge your Official
Information Act request of 10 August 2024 seeking:

 

“Please provide any and all information known or held by your department
in any and all formats, including, but not limited to, documents, draft
documents, reports, memos, letters, notes, electronic communications,
transcripts, visual presentations, photography, and video/audio recordings
containing information pertaining to geo-engineering, weather modification
and Solar Radiation Management/Mitigation (SRM) with particular emphasis
on cloud seeding, marine cloud brightening/engineering/seeding and
Stratospheric Aerosol Injection (SAI).

 

Additionally, please provide any and all information known or held by your
department in any and all formats, including, but not limited to,
documents, draft documents, reports, memos, letters, notes, electronic
communications, transcripts, visual presentations, photography, and
video/audio recordings containing information pertaining to barium, nano
aluminium-coated fibreglass (known as chaff), radioactive thorium,
cadmium, chromium, copper sulphate, nickel, strontium, graphene,
desiccated blood, mould spores, yellow fungal mycotoxins, ethylene
dibromide and polymer fibres with relation to their uses, or potential
uses, in geo-engineering, weather modification, Solar Radiation
Management/Mitigation, cloud seeding and Stratospheric Aerosol Injection.

 

And Finally, please provide any and all information known or held by your
department in any and all formats, including, but not limited to,
documents, draft documents, reports, memos, letters, notes, electronic
communications, transcripts, visual presentations, photography, and
video/audio recordings containing information pertaining to any mention of
smart particles, nano machines, nano aerosols, nano-particulates or
nano-sized aluminium particles with relationship, if any, to
geo-engineering, weather modification, Solar Radiation
Management/Mitigation, cloud seeding and Stratospheric Aerosol Injection.”

 

We will endeavour to respond to your request as soon as possible, and in
any event no later than 6 September 2024 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.

 

The Ministry publishes Official Information Act responses on our website
when there may be wider interest in the information released. This means
the information provided to you might be published after you have received
it.

 

Ngâ mihi

 

Harry (He / Him)

Kaitohutohu - Tuhinga Ôkawa|Adviser - Accountability and Correspondence

 

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Watkins <[FOI #28001 email]>
Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2024 8:05 PM
To: OCU <[MOT request email]>
Subject: Official Information request - Official Information Request to
the Ministry of Transport Regarding the Phenomenon of Geo-Engineering,
Weather Modification, Solar Radiation Management and Cloud Seeding

 

Dear Ministry of Transport,

 

Please provide any and all information known or held by your department in
any and all formats, including, but not limited to, documents, draft
documents, reports, memos, letters, notes, electronic communications,
transcripts, visual presentations, photography, and video/audio recordings
containing information pertaining to geo-engineering, weather modification
and Solar Radiation Management/Mitigation (SRM) with particular emphasis
on cloud seeding, marine cloud brightening/engineering/seeding and
Stratospheric Aerosol Injection (SAI).

 

Additionally, please provide any and all information known or held by your
department in any and all formats, including, but not limited to,
documents, draft documents, reports, memos, letters, notes, electronic
communications, transcripts, visual presentations, photography, and
video/audio recordings containing information pertaining to barium, nano
aluminium-coated fibreglass (known as chaff), radioactive thorium,
cadmium, chromium, copper sulphate, nickel, strontium, graphene,
desiccated blood, mould spores, yellow fungal mycotoxins, ethylene
dibromide and polymer fibres with relation to their uses, or potential
uses, in geo-engineering, weather modification, Solar Radiation
Management/Mitigation, cloud seeding and Stratospheric Aerosol Injection.

 

And Finally, please provide any and all information known or held by your
department in any and all formats, including, but not limited to,
documents, draft documents, reports, memos, letters, notes, electronic
communications, transcripts, visual presentations, photography, and
video/audio recordings containing information pertaining to any mention of
smart particles, nano machines, nano aerosols, nano-particulates or
nano-sized aluminium particles with relationship, if any, to
geo-engineering, weather modification, Solar Radiation
Management/Mitigation, cloud seeding and Stratospheric Aerosol Injection.

 

Yours faithfully,

 

Ben Watkins

 

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