6 September 2024
OIAD-1200
Ben Watkins
[FYI request #28000 email]
Dear Ben,
Thank you for your email of 10 August 2024 requesting the following under the Official Information Act 1982
(the Act):
Please provide any and all information known or held by your department in any and al 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 al information known or held by your department in any and al
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 al information known or held by your department in any and al
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.
I am refusing your request for
“letters” and
“electronic communications” under section 18(d) of the Act, as
the requested information is publicly available, here:
Request all reports and enquiries received by the public
regarding Atmospheric aerosol geoengineering, Chemtrails, Aircraft emissions, Stratospheric aerosol
injection or Solar radiation management since 2010 | Ministry for the Environment
I am refusing the remainder of your request under section 18(e) of the Act, as the information does not exist.
You have the right to seek an investigation and review by the Office of the Ombudsman of my decision
relating to this request, in accordance with section 28(3) of the Act. The relevant details can be found on
their website at:
www.ombudsman.parliament.nz. Please note that due to the public interest in our work the Ministry for the Environment publishes responses
to requests for official information on our
OIA responses page shortly after the response has been sent. If
you have any queries about this, please feel free to contact our Ministerial Services team:
[email address]. Yours sincerely
Sarah Kenward
Manager - Hazardous Substances and Biotechnology Policy
Ministry for the Environment | Manatū Mō Te Taiao