This is an HTML version of an attachment to the Official Information request 'Official Information Request to the Ministry for the Environment Regarding the Phenomenon of Geo-Engineering, Weather Modification, Solar Radiation Management and Cloud seeding'.


 
 
 
 
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