Land management category winners in the 2020 Taranaki Regional Council Environmental Awards. Category sponsor: Corteva Agriscience C and J McCowan Partnership - for outstanding effort protecting and improving the environment through sustainable land management and farming practices. Steep slopes, high rainfall and erodible soils may seem considerable challenges, but sustainable and profitable farming is still possible. Campbell and Jodene McCowan work hard to achieve it on their 118-hectare
of race freeboard.
• Assessment of potential flooding effects on adjacent properties.
• Assessment of mitigation options to minimise flooding effects on adjacent properties.
• Assessment of likely erosion issues within the Race and management option to
mitigate these issues.
• Assessment of the likely geotechnical issues within the Race.
The scope did not include:
• Any detailed design of race or fish passage improvements.
• Any physical geotechnical investigations.
Dairy category winners in the 2020 Taranaki Regional Council Environmental Awards. Category sponsor: Fonterra PKW Farms LP - for proactively minimising environmental risk and improving environmental performance through sustainable farming practices. The environment is a key part of PKW Farms’ commitment to deliver on the long-term aspirations of its owners and future generations. Milking 7,000 cows across 13 dairy units, it has kaitiakitanga among its four core values. A Kaitiakitanga Strategy
Business category winners in the 2020 Taranaki Regional Council Environmental Awards. Blake Cheer and Gareth Fraser, Fonterra Farm Source Taranaki - for efforts to enhance farming practices through collaboration with the farming community for the protection of the environment. Blake and Gareth are helping dairy farmers across Taranaki make the environment a central part of their everyday business activities. The pair are instrumental in the roll-out of Tiaki Farm Environment Plans for Fonterra
These monitored consent holders process oil and gas from onshore and offshore oil and gas fields in Taranaki. Nova Energy Junction Road Power Plant This plant is located at 688 Junction Road, New Plymouth, in the Waiwhakaiho catchment. The facility is composed of two gas fired peaker plants. Formally Todd Generation Junction Road Power Station. Nova Junction Road Power Plant Annual Report 2022-2023 (997 KB PDF) Nova Junction Road Power Plant Annual Report 2022-2023 (997 KB PDF) Todd Generation
Items of interest from this week’s meetings of the Council’s two key committees, Consents & Regulatory, and Policy & Planning: More clarity on wetlandsThe Council has welcomed a Government move to amend and clarify its new wetlands regulations to remove unanticipated barriers to habitat restoration work and other nearby activities that pose no environmental threat. The Policy & Planning Committee discussed a draft submission that generally supports the proposed amendments subject to minor
any recommendations that might be made by the review.
e) determined that this decision be recognised as not significant in terms of section 76 of the Local
Government Act 2002
f) determined that it has complied with the decision-making provisions of the Local Government
Act 2002 to the extent necessary in relation to this decision; and in accordance with section 79 of
the Act, determined that it does not require further information, further assessment of options or
further