20-E-0235/DOC-6282034
5 May 2020
Mr Andy Blick
[FYI request #12694 email]
Dear Mr Blick
Thank you for your Official Information Act request to the Department of
Conservation, dated 24 April 2020. Your request follows from our response about
your previous OIA 20-E-0022, when we advised that final costs for the December
2019 Whirinaki would be available in approximately four months. Accordingly, you
have requested the following:
could you please provide the final costings for the 2019 aerial 1080
operation in the Whirinaki forest. Please also provide the costs of the
associated security and any payments made to iwi organisations or
individuals that pertained to this operation.
The total budget assigned to this operation was $878,517. Of this, $809,277 has been
spent to date.
This includes security costs, which were $10,548.
No payments have been made, or will be made, to iwi organisations or individuals.
Final costs are still being confirmed, as some post operational work has been delayed
by Covid-19 restrictions. However, the total expenditure for this project is expected to
be at or below budget.
Please note that this letter (with your personal details removed) will be published on
the Department’s website.
Yours sincerely,
Hilary Aikman
Director Operations Issues and Programmes
for Director General
Conservation House -
Whare Kaupapa Atawhai
PO Box 10 420, Wellington 6143
Telephone (04) 471 0726, Fax (04) 381 3057