OC240939
25 September 2024
Ben Watkins
[FYI request #28001 email]
Tēnā koe Ben,
I refer to your email dated 10 August 2024, requesting the following under the Of icial Information
Act 1982 (the Act):
“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.”
on 11 September 2024, we reached out to you to clarify the scope of the request:
“We’d like to reach out to confirm the scope of your OIA request.
During our consultation process we have been advised that you have requested the
same information from NIWA and have recently refined the scope of your request to :
transport.govt.nz | hei-arataki.nz
HEAD OFFICE: PO Box 3175, Wellington 6140, New Zealand. PH: +64 4 439 9000
AUCKLAND OFFICE: NZ Government Auckland Policy Office, PO Box 106483, Auckland 1143, New Zealand. PH: +64 4 439 9000
‘’all information your department has on Cloud Seeding, Stratospheric Aerosol
Injection, Solar Radiation Management and Cloud Brightening’’.
https://fyi.org.nz/request/27988-official-information-request-to-the-national-institute-of-
water-and-atmospheric-research-regarding-the-phenomenon-of-geo-engineering-
weather-modification-and-cloud-seeding#outgoing-46162
Currently, the Ministry of Transport only holds information related to marine
engineering. Based on this information, we want to confirm if you are interested in
continuing with your request and receiving this information’’
On 15 September 2024, you emailed the Ministry clarifying the scope of your request by noting
that:
“In your ministry's response, you state: "Currently, the Ministry of Transport only holds
information related to marine engineering."
I assume that this is quite literally to do with the mechanical operation of maritime
vehicles and infrastructure? I'm not at all interested in that. I'm looking for any
information the Ministry of Transport may hold on Stratospheric Aerosol Injection,
Marine Cloud Brightening, Solar Radiation Management and Cloud Seeding.
Please provide any information the ministry may have on these above listed topics’’.
We further advised via email that the Ministry does not hold any information related to ‘’
Stratospheric Aerosol Injection, Marine Cloud Brightening, Solar Radiation Management
and Cloud Seeding’’, and that the only documents we have pertain specifically to Ocean
Fertilisation.
We are now responding to your request in accordance with what we advised via previous
correspondence.
I am refusing your request under the following section of the Act:
18(e)
that the document alleged to contain the information requested does not exist
or, despite reasonable ef orts to locate it, cannot be found
You have the right to seek an investigation and review of this response by the Ombudsman, in
accordance with section 28(3) of the Act. The relevant details can be found on the Ombudsman’s
websit
e www.ombudsman.parliament.nz
The Ministry publishes our Of icial Information Act responses and the information contained in our
reply to you may be published on the Ministry website. Before publishing we wil remove any
personal or identifiable information.
Nāku noa, nā
Nick Paterson
Manager Environment
transport.govt.nz | hei-arataki.nz
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