again demonstrated the diverse talents of our
region’s students. The Taranaki Regional
Council sponsors prizes that best demonstrate
an environmental awareness or action.
Choosing the winners was no easy task.
Congratulations to all the students, teachers
and parents who devoted their time and
energy to help create such a colourful and
informative spectacle.
Enjoy your term and remember to teach is to
touch lives forever.
Regards
Kevin Archer
We recently hosted
you need support with any part of this, please
get in touch.
Have a great term.
Kevin
Regional Council
Taranaki
In today's world, where the use of acronyms
seems to be part and parcel of modern-day
living, SHMAK (Stream Health Measurement
and Assessment Kit) is just one you possibly
have heard of.
This issue of SITE (another acronym) explains
how and why the SHMAK programme
originated, how we have adapted it to use in
our streams and rivers and how we can
sampling and analysis of groundwater required by the conditions of the exercised consent.
The following report describes the groundwater monitoring programme implemented by
the Taranaki Regional Council (the Council) to assess the potential effects of hydraulic
fracturing activities at the Turangi-B wellsite on groundwater resources in the area
surrounding the site. The results of the monitoring undertaken allow for an assessment of
the Company’s environmental performance to be made in
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Trapping possums at home
Regional Council
Taranaki
Towards
Predator ree-F
Taranaki
Taranaki Taku Tūranga
Yes! You may be surprised by just how many possums
there are. While they prefer to live in areas of bush
possums can also be found in backyards throughout the
city - anywhere they have a food supply (they're big fans of
citrus and roses!) and shelter (anything from woodpiles to
garden sheds).
Limited monitoring has found possums all over the
situations
where previous sign-off for the activity has been obtained and the nature of the activity is
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‘Activity first established’ means the date an air discharge consent was first issued by the Taranaki Regional
Council for the activity.
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otherwise unchanged and the sign-off specifies that it applies or is given irrespective of the
duration of the activity.
This approach has been designed to acknowledge the
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BEFORE HEARING COMMISSIONERS
APPOINTED BY TARANAKI REGIONAL COUNCIL
Consent No: 5262-3.0
UNDER THE
IN THE MATTER OF
Resource Management Act 1991 ("Act")
an application for resource consent discharge
emissions into the air from a free range poultry
farming operation
BETWEEN
AND
AIRPORT FARM TRUSTEE LTD
Applicant
TARANAKI REGIONAL COUNCIL
Consent authority
STATEMENT OF EVIDENCE OF
NIGEL ERIC WILLIAMS AND CHRISTIE MCKAY
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Regional Council
Taranaki
Proposed Coastal Plan for Taranaki
Map Portal
As part of the review of the Coastal Plan,
Council has an interactive map portal
designed to provide fast access to
mapped information for sites contained
in the Proposed Coastal Plan schedules.
The map portal can be viewed on
smartphones or tablets as well as laptops.
for the
Coastal Plan review:
Proposed Coastal Plan 2018
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pasture, reducing the capacity of
farmland and reducing farm income.
Are vectors for bovine tuberculosis.
Taranaki is one of only three regions
without endemic bovine tuberculosis.
Should bovine tuberculosis become endemic in the region,
the potential costs to the region’s dairy, beef and venison
industries would be significant.
Damage plantation forests, reducing their value by a
substantial amount. This largely occurs through damage to
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Memorandum
To Alex Connolly, Scientific Officer – State of the Environment
Job Managers - Callum MacKenzie, Emily Roberts, Nathan Crook
From Brian Cheyne, Scientific Officer – Air Quality
Document no. 1841084
Date 28 March 2017
Monitoring of nitrogen oxides (NOx) levels in Taranaki near the
NOx emitting sites, year 2016-2017
From 2014 onwards, the Taranaki Regional Council (TRC) has implemented a coordinated region-wide
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Memorandum
To Fiza Hafiz, Scientific Officer – State of the Environment
Job Managers - Callum MacKenzie, Emily Roberts, James Kitto
From Brian Cheyne, Scientific Officer – Air Quality
File Frodo # 1718841
Date 22 July 2016
Monitoring of nitrogen oxides (NOx) levels in Taranaki near
the NOx emitting sites, year 2015-2016
From 2014 onwards, the Taranaki Regional Council (TRC) has implemented a coordinated
region-wide monitoring programme to measure NOx, not