The Council administers the Taranaki Civil Defence Emergency Management Group, which is governed by the three District Mayors and the Regional Council Chair. It's vital that the entire Taranaki community is prepared for when, not if, a major emergency occurs. At an individual level, we all need to know what to do in an emergency. While the Civil Defence Emergency Management Group involves officials from all four Taranaki Councils and other agencies, and is responsible for planning and
bring people to New Plymouth for outpatient appointments or to visit relatives in Base Hospital. “People’s ability to access health services is a priority for us and the Connector bus plays an important role in enabling this,” says Steve Chapman of the TDHB. The Taranaki Regional Council-administered public transport network also includes New Plymouth Citylink commuter and school bus services, and once-a-week Southlink services serving smaller communities in South Taranaki. The Council also
It’s working – Taranaki community’s predator control is expanding at a rapid pace, removing rats, possums and stoats, disrupting the threats facing native wildlife and plants. Taranaki Regional Council Chair David MacLeod says he’s excited by the community’s commitment and progress a year since the region-wide project Towards Predator-Free Taranaki was announced on 30 May 2019. Rural andurban residents, iwi, community organisations and schools are uniting to remove rats, stoats and possums from
satisfy. One consent allows for the discharge of
effluent into the Tasman Sea and the other deals with the structure which conveys the
effluent (this consent is now jointly held with Methanex Motunui Ltd). The performance of
the Methanex Waitara Valley and Motunui plants in relation to their consents is discussed in
a separate report (13-72).
The Taranaki Regional Council (the Council) monitoring programme for the period under review
included three site inspections, an assessment of data, and
activities that have potential to affect air quality. The Plan also sets the strategic direction for integrated management in Taranaki between the Taranaki Regional Council and the three district councils. Downloads Air Quality (2.5 MB pdf) Analysis of air quality-related incidents and complaints (691 KB pdf) Related links Regional Air Quality Plan Environmental monitoring technical reports Ambient air quality guidelines (Environment Ministry) National Environmental Standards for Air Quality
Project and the Department of Conservation. It is part of a possum control operation that Taranaki Mounga project and Taranaki Regional Council will carry out across Egmont National Park in 2019. 1080 bait is the most effective tool to control predators in this rugged environment and will only be used on Egmont National Park and some adjacent privately-owned bush areas. To learn further information and facts about 1080 and its use in New Zealand visit here. This website is a joint initiative by Forest
the hearing, the Council will finalise and adopt the new plan. Climate change in the mixThought-provoking suggestions on climate change from the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment are largely consistent with approaches taken by the Council, the Policy and Planning Committee was told. The Commissioner, Simon Upton, has warned of dangers and risks in the use of forests as carbon sinks, and also believes animal-generated emissions need to be treated differently to fossil-fuel emissions,
A family of copper skinks have set up home in a New Plymouth community garden – with a little help from their human friends. New Zealand’s smallest native lizard used to be common in New Plymouth but is becoming increasingly rare in the city. So when Taranaki Regional Council ecologist Halema Jamieson got a call to say at least four skinks had been spotted at the Marfell Community Garden, she was keen to check them out. The copper skink looks very similar to the Australian plague skink, but
Special bus services on Saturday (1 December) will allow families to get to New Plymouth’s Christmas parade minus traffic and parking hassles. Citylink buses will operate on 10 routes, with gold-coin fares accepted. Go to www.taranakibus.info for timetable details and route maps. “The services cover all New Plymouth suburbs, plus Bell Block, Waitara, Oākura and Omata,” says Chris Clarke, Transport Services Manager for the Taranaki Regional Council which provides Citylink services through its
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