Australia, New Zealand & Tasmania - 1947 onwards - Weather & Climate Modification
#4 : A summary of weather and climate modification activity.
One common theme across countries that have weather modification activities is the level of property damage caused and the loss of life, which is quite common considering the length of time the activity has taken place for and how unnecessary the loss of life is. Weather modification activities cannot be acceptable as a cause of death. In the article about the UK's activity in the 1950's and the deaths and damage caused by that activity you were introduced to the concept that weather modification is an unjustified killer. You will see more proof of it in this article regarding Tasmania. You will see more evidence for it in future articles such as the German floods in July 2021 where approximately 300 people lost their lives across Germany, Holland and Belgium due to extreme weather events. You will also see it in the UAE where property damage is common during their weather modification operations, in Kerala, India and also China and the USA. Vietnam is well known to have suffered due to American weather modification activity.
A common 'green-washing' scenario is hydro power. Hydro power is often referred to as sustainable, clean energy. This is a lie. Weather modification is used by most hydro power companies across the world, including Snowy Hydro in Australia, the Northern California Power Company (NCPC) and Idaho Power in the United States and also in Ethiopia, Africa. Atmospheric moisture redistribution is not environmentally friendly. Particulates have to be added to the sky to attract moisture to the target area which causes drought in other areas due to the reduction in atmospheric moisture that should be in that area. The particulates 'sprayed', distributed by aircraft or flared off via ground based generators should not be in the natural sky. The un-natural manipulation of the natural environment is not environmentally friendly or sustainable.
Tasmania - Weather Modification - 1964 to 2016
'Hydro Tasmania' is one company that recognised the destructive side of weather modification, after their activity caused an extreme weather event in 2016. They ceased operations on 7 June 2016 after 3 people died in floods. One of the 3 people, Mary Alford, was a pensioner who died when she could not escape the flood waters created by the State run, Hydro Tasmania, cloud seeding operations. When the news first broke it was clear to everyone what had happened although a few months later the Tasmanian authorities announced the deaths were not caused by weather modification operations. Obviously the authorities had to back-track and claim that to protect their own legal obligations. The authorities stance contradicts Hydro Tasmania's stance. At the time of the flood the Tasmanian government acknowledged it was the cloud seeding operations that caused the extreme weather event because the 'target area' covered by the operations was significantly reduced through legislation.
The extreme weather event occurred on the 6th of June 2016 and as mentioned the operations by Hydro Tasmania were stopped on the 7th June. They never resumed their operations, even after the State legislators, in June, reduced the target area of operations and gave their permission for operations to continue whilst investigations took place. If the deaths and property damage on 6 June was not caused by Hydro Tasmania then the State would not have changed the legislation and more importantly, Hydro Tasmania would not of permanently ceased its operations on the 7th June.
Official Hydro Tasmania statements include "Hydro Tasmania no longer conducts a cloud seeding program. Cloud seeding flights stopped in June 2016." and "Hydro Tasmania was involved in both experimental and operational cloud seeding over Tasmania and mainland Australia from 1964. In that time we developed a great deal of knowledge and expertise in the area. Our cloud seeding operations were usually conducted between May and October each year when conditions were suitable."
Tasmania - Climate Modification - Geo-Engineering
In August 2016 the University of Tasmania announced a project which would start in 2017. Titled ' Geo-Engineering the Southern Ocean? A Transdisciplinary Assessment' with the idea being to publish a guide for policy makers on pathways to research governance for geo-engineering studies. A project that would involve a multi-faceted study of geo-engineering and geo-engineering governance.
Australia - Weather Modification - 1947 onwards
In January 2017, Tim Roberts published an article in Australia's 'Newcastle Herald' in which he stated "The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) carried out systematic cloud seeding with dry-ice and sodium iodide from 1947 in an effort to bring more rain."
The National Archives of Australia has an article titled 'Cloud seeding operation off the coast of Sydney' in which it is stated "Shows an aspect of one of numerous cloud-seeding experiments that have taken place in Australia since 1947, including a six-year experiment that began in the Snowy Mountains in 2004, with silver iodide being sent into passing clouds from aerosol generators on the ground – despite all the experimental work conducted to help develop the technique, Tasmania is the only Australian state so far to use seeding on a significant scale". (And we know how that turned out).
A 2022 UK FOIR contained a document from 27 February 1954 written by H.W.L. Absalom of the Meteorological Office for the Meteorological Research Office at the Air Ministry (MOD UK) in which it is written about the CSIRO experiments using dry ice in the Sydney area.
On 3 December 1954 the UK's, 'Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette' newspaper printed an article by B.J. Mason who resided at the Department of Meteorology at the Imperial College of Science, London.
Mason stated that "Large scale operations have been conducted in the United States, Canada, South America, France, Spain and Italy." It was also stated that "It has been shown beyond all reasonable doubt - particularly by a series of tests carried out in Australia - that suitable shower clouds can be induced to rain by seeding them with dry ice from aircraft."
In the UK's 'Shields Daily News' in Northumberland from the 2nd February 1955 it was stated by a Reuters correspondent that "A new method of cloud seeding by spreading rain-making chemicals over a 200-mile wide front is being tried out in Australia near Cloncurry, Queensland. More than 5.5 inches (12.6 cm) of rain fell (in the target area) where the scientists were working. More tests would be carried out.."
Moving ahead to 1957, the UK's 'Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail' reported on the 9th of April that "Australia's backroom weather boffins believe that they have almost succeeded in causing rain, where and when it is needed." The article stated further "To announce success, all they needed, was to examine rainfall statistics resulting from their 2 years of continual seeding of a test area in the Australian Alps on the Victoria - New South Wales border."
In Australia, in the State of Victoria, the person responsible for the Administration of the 1967 - Rain-Making Control Act (Act no. 7637) is the Minister for Agriculture.
1968 - 'The Birmingham Daily Post' (UK), reported on 12 June 1968 that "Cloud Seeding experiments are ongoing in Australia and America, it's use in Britain appears a long, long way off - if, indeed, it is even practical." (If you want to check the accuracy of that Britain, as per 1968 statement, please read the UK - Weather Modification summary).
In the 21st century: In New South Wales, the legislation for the 'Snowy Mountains Cloud Seeding Act - 2004' was updated in 2012, changing "a trial cloud seeding research project" to "cloud seeding operations". 2008, the 21st of January, saw the Queensland government weather modification statement "Queensland Cloud Seeding Project Underway". This was announced by the Minister for Sustainability, Climate Change and Innovation. In April 2022 the media went into 'conspiracy theorist' priming mode by publishing stories about how Handel Aviation were responsible for flooding caused by their cloud seeding operations. Handel Aviation operator Mark Handel told AFP that "the company does not seed clouds". So it was a conspiracy theory right? Or was it a deflection? Would the same 'it is not us' response come from Snowy Hydro? No, it wouldn't.
2013-2023 is when, according to Eric Henrikson, KXAN News, Austin, Texas, USA on 20 April 2023, the Texas based company 'Rainwater Tech' has been carrying out the electric charge method of weather modification, Ionization technology, in Australia for 10 years.
Australia - Climate Modification
In August 2018 the Commonwealth & Queensland governments announced funding for feasibility projects aimed at manipulating surface water temperatures using different techniques, one of which is 'Marine Cloud Brightening', a process where salt crystals harvested from seawater are fired into clouds to make them more reflective.
In September 2020 the 'Maritime Executive' released an article titled 'Who Governs Climate Intervention and Geo-Engineering on the High Seas?' An image is used showing, prototype cloud brightening equipment developed by the Southern Cross University, EMI Controls and the Sydney Institute of Marine Sciences (SIMS). The article states "So far, 27 different marine geo-engineering schemes have been proposed. There have been roughly 12 field tests, mostly focused on ocean iron fertilisation for CO2 sequestration purposes.
Snowy Hydro
As mentioned earlier, in New South Wales the legislation for the 'Snowy Mountains Cloud Seeding Act - 2004' was updated in 2012, changing "a trial cloud seeding research project" to "cloud seeding operations". This is confirmed by Snowy Hydro in a September 2012 notification where they change the name from Snowy Mountains to Snowy Hydro. Their last annual report was in 2021, they start in 2013. They have been 'silent' since the last 2021 report. The reports contain detailed 'target area' maps as well as other key data.
New Zealand
As far as I know, New Zealand does not have a weather and/or climate modification programme in place but that does not mean it is not effected by inadvertant weather and/or climate modification activities carried out by other countries nearby who are under the same weather systems whilst over 'their' land or local sea's. They are however involved in the production of weather modification - cloud seeding - aeroplanes. In November 2023 the New Zealand based 'News Hub' reported that the new SuperPac XSTOL plane "can now fight the impact of climate change by rain-making in drought stricken areas."
Source:
Tasmania - Weather Modification
https://www.hydro.com.au/water/rainfall/cloud-seeding
https://www.hydro.com.au/news/media-releases/2017/09/14/cloud-seeding-will-not-proceed-in-2017
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-09-07/call-to-fast-track-tasmanian-flood-inquiry/7820230
https://www.hydro.com.au/about-us/news/2016-07/analysis-shows-no-impact-cloud-seeding-flight
https://www.hydro.com.au/docs/default-source/water/cloud-seeding/cloud_seeding_summary_for_2016.pdf
https://www.premier.tas.gov.au/releases/more_cloud_seeding_under_energy_supply_plan
Tasmania - Climate Modification
https://www.imas.utas.edu.au/study/research-higher-degrees/current-phd-projects/geoengineering-the-southern-ocean-a-transdisciplinary-assessment. (deleted)
https://antiweathermodification.weebly.com/tasmania.html (screenshot and link)
Australia - Weather Modification
1947 - https://www.naa.gov.au/students-and-teachers/learning-resources/learning-resource-themes/environment-and-nature/weather-and-climate/cloud-seeding-operation-coast-sydney
https://csiropedia.csiro.au/Cloud-seeding/
https://www.theherald.com.au/story/4415775/when-it-rains-it-spores-from-microbial-soup-above/
1954 - https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000640/19541203/074/0007
1955 - https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002077/19550202/046/0007
1957 - https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000378/19570409/014/0002
1967 -
https://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/about/people-in-parliament/members-search/list-all-members/details/22/116
https://content.legislation.vic.gov.au/sites/default/files/9c3218d3-e799-3878-881a-d4720f7260b2_67-7637aa016%20authorised.pdf
2004 & 2012 - https://legislation.nsw.gov.au/view/whole/html/repealed/current/act-2012-073
2008 - https://statements.qld.gov.au/statements/50169
Rainwater Tech -
https://web.archive.org/web/20230502032638/https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/austin-based-company-wants-to-control-the-rain-over-lake-travis/
http://rainwatertech.com/about
Australia - Climate Modification
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2018/08/geoengineering-and-coral-farming-are-now-being-tested-to-save-worlds-coral.html
https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/beyond-the-headlines-can-cloud-seeding-save-earth-1.1010735
https://chinadialogue.net/en/climate/climate-intervention-on-the-high-seas/
Snowy Hydro
https://www.snowyhydro.com.au/generation/cloud-seeding/
http://www.snowyhydro.com.au/blog/2012/09/14/cloud-seeding-in-the-snowy-mountains-now-permanent/
http://www.snowyhydro.com.au/our-energy/cloud-seeding/cloud-seeding-annual-reports/
https://www.snowyhydro.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/2021_Cloud-seeding-operations-report.pdf
New Zealand
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2023/11/global-aid-agencies-governments-queue-up-to-fight-climate-change-with-new-kiwi-plane.html