Community category winners in the 2022 Taranaki Regional Council Environmental Awards. Category Sponsor: Methanex Sustainable Taranaki - for outstanding contribution to promoting sustainability in Taranaki and educating and encouraging communities and individuals to make lifestyle changes which benefit the natural environment. Sustainable Taranaki’s programmes reflect its mission of inspiring people to play their part in handing a vibrant environment to the next generation. Recognising people
will be promoted throughout the
Taranaki region and at different scales within the region and will include ecological landscapes, ecosystems,
habitats, communities, species and populations.
Adverse effects on indigenous biodiversity
POLICY 2
Adverse effects on indigenous biodiversity in the Taranaki region arising from the use and development of
natural and physical resources will be avoided, remedied or mitigated.
Ecosystems, habitats and areas with
Hydraulic fracturing is commonly referred to as fraccing, fracking or hydrofraccing. Greymouth Petroleum Ltd Kaimiro-A hydraulic fracturing Wellsite location: Upland Rd, Inglewood. Report 2015-2016 (997 KB pdf) More reports Report 2015-2016 (997 KB pdf) Report 2013-2015 (1.3 MB pdf) Greymouth Petroleum Ltd Kowhai-B hydraulic fracturing Wellsite location: Ngatimaru Rd, Tikorangi. Annual report 2014-2015 (2.6 MB pdf) More reports Annual report 2014-2015 (2.6 MB pdf) Report 2012-2014 (1 MB pdf)
engagement and consultation. This is
exactly the situation the Council found itself in. This
Annual Plan delivers what was outlined for 2025/2026 in
the 2024/2034 Long-Term Plan. There are no new issues,
plans or programmes or work. This Annual Plan as
regarded “business as planned”.
The emphasis in preparing this Annual Plan has been to
produce a straight-forward easy to read document. This
has been aided by the Local Government Act 2002,
which only requires the
Business category winners in the 2022 Taranaki Regional Council Environmental Awards. Category sponsor: Daily News Todd Energy - for a significant contribution to the safeguarding and protection of the Kapuni Awa. After major flooding on the Kapuni Awa (river) in South Taranaki in July 2021, Taranaki energy company Todd Energy invested in a 100m-long new rock wall. Around 1500m3 of land within the Nova Generation Solar Farm site was washed away during the major weather event, with sediment
Sole [10 Old Devon Road]; and
J Gibbons [1245 Devon Road].
9. The relevant sections of each submission are summarised in the table below.
Table 1: Summary of submissions
Submitter Summary of submission
BL & LM Relf noxious odours and airborne particulates continue to invade
their property, either in compliance with the existing consent
or as a result of mis-management, error or accident;
increasing the operation size of the farm by 74% will increase
the magnitude of the
The Council staff are organised under a chief executive and four directors. Senior management team Chief Executive and Directors Steve Ruru
Chief Executive
email Steve Ruru Abby Matthews Director-Environment Quality email Abby Matthews Daniel Harrison
Director-Operations
email Daniel Harrison Fred McLay
Director-Resource Management
email Fred McLay Mike Nield
Director-Corporate Services
email Mike Nield Operational structureThe Council employs a permanent staff with wide-ranging professional,
The project to upgrade and restore Yarrow Stadium’s West Stand is raising the roof! Work started this week on installing the new fabric roof with the mahi expected to be completed before Christmas, weather permitting. Taranaki Regional Council Chair Charlotte Littlewood said it was great to see the work now under way. ”New Plymouth is the sunshine capital of Aotearoa but we had a pretty wet and wild winter which put the brakes on getting the roof on earlier in the year. We’re now hoping for