9 March, 2026
Nigel Gray
(no address supplied)
Email: [FYI request #33892 email]
Tēnā koe Nigel,
I am writing in response to your OIA request of 2 March. You sought:
All internal communications, editorial meeting minutes, assignment records, and
decisions not to proceed with coverage relating to the topics of ship emissions and
roadside drug testing between 1 January 2023 and 1 March 2026.
I am unable to provide you with any such communications under Section 18(e) of the
Official Information Act 1982, because the information does not exist.
RNZ has
not stopped covering either ship emissions or roadside drug testing. A search of
RNZ’s website
(RNZ) using those terms returns the following links for recent months:
Ship emissions
20 Feb 2026
: ‘If the stars align, boom!’: Ngā Wairiki-Ngāti Apa bets on green energy | RNZ
News
15 Feb 2026:
'Don't put it alongside us': Liquified Natural Gas safety fears raised in
Taranaki | RNZ News
5 Dec 2025
:Government rejects all climate change recommendations | RNZ
4 Dec 2025
: 'Pitiful' decision on emissions targets will cost the country, former climate
commissioner says | RNZ News; Government rejects all of Climate Change
Commission's emissions target recommendations | RNZ News
21 Nov 2025
: Government quietly rejects advice to set more ambitious 'net negative'
emissions goal | RNZ News
23 Sept 2025:
Will NZ's net zero 2050 climate targets include shipping and aviation
emissions? | RNZ News
PO BOX 123 Wellington, New Zealand +64 4 474 1999 www.rnz.co.nz
Roadside drug testing
20 Feb 2026
: Seven drugged drivers fined since roadside testing began | RNZ News
16 Dec 2025
: Oral Questions for Tuesday 16 December 2025 | RNZ; First day of roadside
drug testing in Wellington gets positive feedback, police say | RNZ News; Roadside drug
testing underway in Wellington | RNZ
15 Dec 2025
: The Panel with Anton Matthews and Marian Hobbs, Part 2 | RNZ; Wellington
drivers to be tested for drugs from today | RNZ
13 Dec 2025
: Roadside drug testing is about to start: how it will work | RNZ News
27 Nov 2025
: Fears thousands of medicinal cannabis users set to be caught out in new
drug-driving laws | RNZ News
24 Nov 2025
: Roadside drug testing nearly worthless, expert says | RNZ News; Can
roadside drug testing really detect impairment? | RNZ
18 Nov 2025
: The Panel with Sarah Perriam-Lampp and Peter Fa'afiu, Part 2 | RNZ
14 Nov 2025
: Australian company to supply police's new roadside drug-testing kits | RNZ
News; How will drug driving testing work? | RNZ;Detection is not prevention: will drug
testing drivers really make NZ roads safer? | RNZ News
I am sure if you continue the search you will find many more articles and interviews dating
back to 2023. You have a right to seek an investigation and review by the Ombudsman of
the above outcome. Information about how to make a complaint is available at
www.ombudsman.parliament.nz or freephone 0800 802 602.
A referral must occur within 20 working days.
Ngā mihi,
Andrew Holden (he/him)
OIA Officer