OIA 17-E-534 [DOC-3234167]
13 December 2017
Lynn Middleton and Nicole Everett
Via email:
[FYI request #6866 email]
Dear Lynn and Nicole,
Thank you for your Official Information Act request to the Department of
Conservation, dated 23 November 2017. You requested the following:
“Could you please provide me with a copy of the full report and presentation you
received at your meeting February 2017 from Dr Michael Lee about the 'ticking
timebomb' from retained oil in the shipwreck RMS Niagara.
Please also supply other reports, presentations or updates you have received about
RMS Niagara before or since that meeting.”
In the subject line of your email you clarified that the report and presentation you
seek was to a meeting of the Auckland Conservation Board in February 2017.
Your questions and our responses are listed below:
“Could you please provide me with a copy of the full report and presentation you
received at your meeting February 2017 from Dr Michael Lee about the 'ticking
timebomb' from retained oil in the shipwreck RMS Niagara.”
The following document falls within the scope of your request:
Item Date
Document description
Decision
1
15
Powerpoint presentation – Available on the Department’s
February “RMS Niagara – a ticking time website
2017
bomb in Hauraki Gulf?”
http://www.doc.govt.nz/about-
us/statutory-and-advisory-
bodies/conservation-
boards/auckland/ Select
“Download meeting minutes
and agendas” then “2017-
meetings” to view attachments
for the 15 February 2017
meeting.
Department of Conservation Te Papa Atawhai
Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland Office
Private Bag 68908, Newton, Auckland 1145
www.doc.govt.nz
2
“Please also supply other reports, presentations or updates you have received about
RMS Niagara before or since that meeting.”
There are no documents that fall within scope of this part of your request. Neither
the Auckland Conservation Board nor the Department have received any further
formal reports, presentations or updates in the period commencing 1 January 2008
to the present day.
If you wish to discuss this with the Department, please contact John Galilee,
Statutory Manager on phone number 027 475 1306 or by email
[email address].
Yours sincerely,
Andrew Baucke
Director Operations (Auckland)
027 281 5638 | [email address]