Kia ora Megan Kedzlie,

Thank you for your Official Information Act request received on
10/10/2025.

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Ngâ mihi nui

Ministerial Services Team 

Ministry for the Environment – Manatû Mô Te Taiao

Email: [MFE request email] Website: [2]www.mfe.govt.nz 

8 Willis Street, Wellington Central, Wellington 6011

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Kia ora Megan
Please find attached an invitation to refine your request.
Ngâ mihi

Ministerial Services Team 

Ministry for the Environment – Manatû Mô Te Taiao

Email: [1][MFE request email] Website: [2]www.mfe.govt.nz 

8 Willis Street, Wellington Central, Wellington 6011

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From: Megan Kedzlie <[FOI #32541 email]>
Sent: Thursday, October 9, 2025 4:13 PM
To: OIA <[MFE request email]>
Subject: Official Information request - Methane Emissions - Individual
Consulation Submissions
 
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Dear Ministry for the Environment,

Could you please release the individual responses for the 2022 "Pricing
Agricultural Emissions" consultation?

Yours faithfully,
Megan Kedzlie

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Kia ora Megan
I notice that there is an error with the website that is preventing you
from opening our letter to you yesterday. As such, I have provided the
content below .
 
Thank you for your request under the Official Information Act 1982 (the
Act) of the Ministry for the Environment (the Ministry).
 
The Ministry received 21,351 submissions on the 2022 "Pricing Agricultural
Emissions" consultation, as summarised in:
[1]https://environment.govt.nz/assets/OIA/F....
 
These submissions consisted of the following:

* 1,415 Citizen Space questionnaire responses, which were recorded in a
Microsoft Excel spreadsheet.

* 1,255 respondents consented to their submission being published.
* 160 respondents did not consent to their submission being
published.
* 301 respondents also uploaded supporting documentation.

* 1,024 unique submissions provided via email.
* 28 in-person or online meetings (meeting notes were coded and analysed
alongside online submissions).
* 18,884 form submissions:

* 11,909 Groundswell NZ submissions.
* 4,316 signatures on Greenpeace’s petition, which can be accessed
at:
[2]https://www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/‌pub....
* 2,324 Beef + Lamb New Zealand submissions (including 1,050 that
contain unique content).
* 284 Federated Farmers of New Zealand submissions.
* 25 Federation of Māori Authorities submissions.
* 18 Rangitikei River Catchment Collective submissions.
* 14 emails using other form submissions.

The Ministry is able to reasonably assess in response to your request:

* one copy of each unique form submission
* a database of 1,255 Citizen Space responses where consent was provided
to publish
* information about and feedback from the 28 meetings.

I consider that the following categories of information cannot be assessed
for release without substantial collation on the Ministry’s part, which
would unreasonably interfere with the operations of the department:

* 160 Citizen Space questionnaire responses where the respondent did not
provide consent to publish. We would need to consult with each
respondent and individually assess each response to identify any
personal or commercially sensitive information.
* 301 instances of supporting documentation for Citizen Space
questionnaire responses. These are not stored in the spreadsheet.
* 1,024 unique submissions provided via email.
* 1,050 Beef + Lamb submissions with unique content.

As such, I would need to decline these parts of your request under section
18(f) of the Act as the information requested cannot be made available
without substantial collation or research.
 
I therefore invite you to refine your request as it relates to these
categories of information and I am happy to support you to do this. Some
suggestions, which are not mutually exclusive and you are not bound to,
include:

* responses that cite particular keyword(s)
* responses from particular organisation(s).

Please note that the Ministry may still need to seek further refinement of
or decline your request as it relates to these categories of information
under section 18(f) of the Act if your refinement does not reduce the
quantity of information to a manageable level.
 
Please advise on the above by 5pm on Friday 24 October.
 
Nāku noa, nā

Ministerial Services Team 

Ministry for the Environment – Manatū Mō Te Taiao

Email: [3][MFE request email] Website: [4]www.mfe.govt.nz 

8 Willis Street, Wellington Central, Wellington 6011

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From: OIA <[MFE request email]>
Sent: Monday, October 20, 2025 4:00 AM
To: Megan Kedzlie <[FOI #32541 email]>
Subject: Re: Official Information request - Methane Emissions - Individual
Consulation Submissions
 
Kia ora Megan
Please find attached an invitation to refine your request.
Ngā mihi

Ministerial Services Team 

Ministry for the Environment – Manatū Mō Te Taiao

Email: [5][MFE request email] Website: [6]www.mfe.govt.nz 

8 Willis Street, Wellington Central, Wellington 6011

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From: Megan Kedzlie <[FOI #32541 email]>
Sent: Thursday, October 9, 2025 4:13 PM
To: OIA <[MFE request email]>
Subject: Official Information request - Methane Emissions - Individual
Consulation Submissions
 
MFE CYBER SECURITY WARNING
This email originated from outside our organisation. Please take extra
care when clicking on any links or opening any attachments.

Dear Ministry for the Environment,

Could you please release the individual responses for the 2022 "Pricing
Agricultural Emissions" consultation?

Yours faithfully,
Megan Kedzlie

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This is an Official Information request made via the FYI website.

Please use this email address for all replies to this request:
[FOI #32541 email]

Is [MFE request email] the wrong address for Official Information requests to
Ministry for the Environment? If so, please contact us using this form:
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the internet. Our privacy and copyright policies:
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ask your web manager to link to us from your organisation's OIA or LGOIMA
page.

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6. http://www.mfe.govt.nz/
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8. https://fyi.org.nz/help/officers

Kia ora Megan
Thank you for your response. We can provide you with a copy of each unique
form submission, the Citizen Space responses where consent to publish was
provided, and the information regarding the 28 meetings held.
To find all corporate, government agency, and dairy or farming association
submissions would require the Ministry to individually open each
submission to check the name and organisation of the sender. This would
unreasonably interfere with the operations of the department.
Can you please provide us with a list of organisations that you would like
us to provide submissions for, if they exist? We can then use aggregate
search functions to find such submissions.
Ngā mihi

Ministerial Services Team 

Ministry for the Environment – Manatū Mō Te Taiao

Email: [1][MFE request email] Website: [2]www.mfe.govt.nz 

8 Willis Street, Wellington Central, Wellington 6011

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From: Megan Kedzlie <[FOI #32541 email]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2025 3:08 PM
To: OIA <[MFE request email]>
Subject: Re: Official Information request - Methane Emissions - Individual
Consulation Submissions (OIAD-1785)
 
MFE CYBER SECURITY WARNING
This email originated from outside our organisation. Please take extra
care when clicking on any links or opening any attachments.

Dear OIA,

Thank you for your response.

I would like access to the copy of each unique form submission, the
Citizen Space responses where consent to publish was provided, and the
information regarding the 28 meetings held. Unfortunately, my keywords are
broad, as I am looking for responses from any corporate or government
agency to the consultation, as well as submissions from farming and dairy
industry associations.

Yours sincerely,

Megan Kedzlie

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