Executive summary
Todd Petroleum Mining Company Ltd (the Company) operates a gas treatment plant, Kapuni Gas Treatment
Plant (KGTP), located on Palmer Road at Kapuni, in the Kapuni catchment, South Taranaki.
This report for the period July 2022 to June 2023 describes the monitoring programme implemented by the
Taranaki Regional Council (the Council) to assess the Company’s environmental and consent compliance
performance during the period under review. The report also details the results of the
River Control and Flood Protection Bylaws For the protection of river control and flood protection assets, including floodways, defences against water, flood protection vegetation, hydrological devices and equipment and survey benchmarks managed by, or under the control of the Council, from damage or destruction to ensure the ongoing functionality of these vital assets. Downloads River Control & Flood Protection Bylaw (5.7 MB pdf) Related links Apply for authority under River Control and Flood
Trust (the Company) operates a ‘farrow to finish’ piggery breeding and fattening unit located on
541 Mountain Road Lepperton, in the Waiongana catchment. The facility includes a solids composting
process and an anaerobic biogas digester that generates about half of the total electricity usage for the site.
Effluent from the piggery is partially irrigated to land.
This report for the period July 2022 to June 2023 describes the monitoring programme implemented by the
Taranaki Regional Council
Urban trappers are luring New Plymouth rats with a range of tempting flavours, from peanut butter to avocado, macadamia butter and pineapple lumps. Urban trappers are experimenting with a range of flavours to find the best bait to catch rats as part of Towards Predator-Free Taranaki, a region-wide project protecting native wildlife and plants with predator control on urban, rural and conservation land – it’s the largest project of its kind in New Zealand and supported by about $12 million from
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Table 8 Evaluation of performance for consent 5266-2 11
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Figure 1 Location of RKM Ltd Piggery 1
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1 Introduction
1.1 Compliance monitoring programme reports and the Resource
Management Act 1991
1.1.1 Introduction
This report is for the period July 2022 to June 2023 by the Taranaki Regional Council (the Council) on the
monitoring programme associated with resource
July 2022 to June 2023 describes the monitoring programme implemented by the
Taranaki Regional Council (the Council) to assess the Company’s environmental and consent compliance
performance during the period under review. The report also details the results of the monitoring
undertaken and assesses the environmental effects of the Company’s activities.
During the monitoring period, the Company demonstrated a high level of environmental performance
and high level of administrative
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The second year of the Towards Predator-Free Taranaki project has seen a rapid expansion of the project area and the realisation of a key project milestone with the completion of a predator control buffer surrounding the national park. 2019/2020 was also a year of consolidating the significant gains that have been made in the urban part of the project, and expanding to new urban areas including Waitara, Ōkato and Ōpunake. The zero density possum programme has also seen steady progress as we
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DOC Series Traps
History & Development
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Fenn traps. 1970’s – 2000’s.
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Fenn traps fail NAWAC Humane Kill Trap Standard. Pre 2003.
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Trapper 90 – Sweden. 2003.
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Swedish Potato Masher – DOC 180. (DOC 200 passes NAWAC)
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DOC series traps