OIAD-4862
03 March 2025
Stephen Prendergast
[FYI request #29905 email]
Tēnā koe Stephen
Thank you for your request to the Department of Conservation, received on 29 January
2025, in which you asked:
‘Please supply the following briefings.
23-B-0466 7/12/2023 Briefing: Ruapehu Alpine Lifts and Mt Ruapehu ski fields
24-B-121 4/03/2024 Further information on Ruapehu Alpine Lifts Limited
decommissioning liability
24-B-134 8/03/2024 Regulatory processes for Ruapehu Alpine Lifts and Whakapapa
ski field
24-B-76 19/03/2024 Ruapehu redundant infrastructure removal - tagged contingency
funding drawdown request.’
We have considered your request under the Of icial Information Act 1982 (OIA).
I have considered that document 23-B-0466 has previously been released to you in response
to OIAD-3715 on 5 April 2024. Given the time that has passed, I have determined further
information can be released under the OIA.
The documents that have been released to you as At achment 1 are listed below:
Item
Date
Document description
Decision
1
7 December 23-B-0466 – Briefing – Ruapehu Alpine
Released in part.
2023
Lifts and Mt Ruapehu ski fields
2
4 March
24-B-0121 - Aide Memoire - Further
Released in part.
2024
information on Ruapehu Alpine Lifts
Limited decommissioning liability
3
8 March
24-B-0134 - Regulatory processes for
Released in part.
2024
Ruapehu Alpine Lifts and Whakapapa ski
field
4
19 March
24-B-0076 - Ruapehu redundant
Released in part.
2024
infrastructure removal – tagged
contingency funding drawdown request
Whare Kaupapa Atawhai/Conservation House - 18 Manners Street, Box 10420, Wellington 6140 Page 1 of 2
I have decided to release the relevant parts of the documents listed above, subject to
information being withheld under one or more of the following sections of the Official
Information Act, as applicable:
• personal contact details of officials, under section 9(2)(a) – to protect the privacy of
natural persons, including deceased people,
• commercially sensitive information, under section 9(2)(b)(i ) – to protect the
commercial position of the person who supplied the information, or who is the subject
of the information,
• confidential information, section 9(2)(ba)(i) - to not prejudice the supply of similar
information or information from the same source,
• advice stil under consideration, section 9(2)(f)(iv) – to maintain the current
constitutional conventions protecting the confidentiality of advice tendered by
Ministers and officials,
• free and frank expression under section 9(2)(g)(i) – to maintain the effective conduct
of public affairs,
• advice subject to legal privilege, under section 9(2)(h) - to maintain legal professional
privilege,
• confidential information, under section 9(2)(j) – to enable the Crown to negotiate
without disadvantage or prejudice.
In making my decision, I have considered the public interest considerations in section 9(1) of
the Official Information Act and determined there are no public interests that outweigh the
grounds for withholding.
You are entitled to seek an investigation and review of my decision by writing to an
Ombudsman as provided by section 28(3) of the Of icial Information Act.
Please note that this letter (with your personal details removed) and attached documents
may be published on the Department’s website.
Nāku noa, nā
Stacey Wrenn
Chief Advisor Regulatory Authorisations
Department of Conservation
Te Papa Atawhai
Whare Kaupapa Atawhai/Conservation House - 18 Manners Street, Box 10420, Wellington 6140 Page 2 of 2
