On Tuesday, September 2, a 13-page appeal decision from the Office of the Commissioner for Environmental Information (OCEI) landed in the inboxes of the transparency advocacy group Right to Know and the Department of Agriculture.  Neither party was likely to have been waiting by the computer, refreshing their inbox, as the original appeal was filed by Right to Know in March 2023 after the department refused one of its request for agricultural records under Access to Information on the Environment legislation. Yet, it will certainly have been worth the wait. Right to Know had asked for a copy of any…

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