The current status and future directions for biodiversity management in Taranaki and wider New Zealand. Addressing New Zealand's Biodiversity Challenge Business as usual in biodiversity will not be good enough if NZ is to maintain its unique indigenous flora and fauna. This thinkpiece suggests five ‘shifts’ that regional councils believe will make the greatest difference. Underlying them is the urgent need for active management – more predator control and the like – and recognition that only a
The Resource Management Act is the statutory cornerstone of much of the Council's work. Analyses of regional sector RMA compliance, monitoring and enforcement These reports are commissioned by the local government regional to measure regional and unitary councils' performance in compliance, monitoring and enforcement, associated with their roles under the Resource Management Act. Compliance, monitoring and enforcement metrics 2020-2021 (2.4 MB pdf) Earlier reports Compliance, monitoring and
These reports cover the major water supply schemes in all three Districts in Taranaki. Cold Creek Community Water Supply Cold Creek Community Water Supply Ltd operates a rural water supply scheme located on Cold Creek, Kiri Rd, in the Taungatara catchment. It holds one consent to allow it to take and use water, one consent to discharge filter back wash and one consent to maintain a weir. Before 2016-2017, it was included in reports covering South Taranaki water supplies. Cold Creek Community
bibliography, are presented at the end of the
report.
1.1.3 The Resource Management Act 1991 and monitoring
The RMA primarily addresses environmental ‘effects’ which are defined as positive or adverse, temporary or
permanent, past, present or future, or cumulative. Effects may arise in relation to:
a. the neighbourhood or the wider community around an activity, and may include cultural and social-
economic effects;
b. physical effects on the locality, including landscape, amenity and visual
Beach water quality, the ecology of rocky reefs and estuaries, any impact on the coast from our rivers, and consent compliance for activities such as consented discharges. Ecological monitoring
Measuring ecological diversity is a useful indicator of coastal water quality. Our long-term rocky shore ecological monitoring programme has been in operation for over 20 years. Within the programme we survey the biological community in the low tide zone of rocky reef habitats. A number of grid areas are
install a flowmeter at the point of discharge as per
condition 8 of Consent 1113-5.1. From the Council’s perspective, the current flowmeter configuration
captures data for groundwater abstraction as both flowmeters record pumping of groundwater from the
main excavation pit to the settling ponds. The Company makes no distinction between groundwater take
and discharge or the emergency discharge rate which Consent 1113-5.1 makes concession for in
condition 2.
For reference, in the 2023/24 year
The Council has more than 30 years of experience in regulating petroleum exploration and development activities. Guide to regulating oil & gas activities under the RMA This guide, prepared by the Council in 2013, is based on more than 30 years of regulation, and a consistent and integrated approach to regulating petroleum exploration in New Zealand among the various agencies involved. It provides access to a wide range of information on the different operations and processes involved in
Video of whio surfing down the Whaiwhakaiho River As the whio population increases and spills out of Egmont National Park then landscape-scale predator control by rural residents, as part of Towards Predator-Free Taranaki, will be critical to protecting this endangered species and others. This will complement extensive predator control in the national park by the Department of Conservation, Taranaki Mounga, an ecological restoration project, and Taranaki Regional Council, which are all working
officers recommendations and responses to those reliefs sought.
Requests to amend are either accepted or declined by Council officers with an explanation on the reasons for the response. Changes to the Proposed
Bylaws are tracked in red with additions being underlined and deletions showing strikethrough.
Please refer to the Appendices of this report for a full copy of the submissions on the Proposed Bylaws.
Submission 1: Powerco Limited
Submitter’s requests Officers’ recommendations and
Items of interest from today's meeting of the Council's Consents and Regulatory Committee: Resource consents
Resource consents allow industries to operate, and enable economic activity and employment. Three hundred and eighty-two consents were issued by Taranaki Regional Council over the 2015/2016 financial year, slightly down on 400 the previous year. This was probably due to an economic downturn in the oil, gas and dairy sectors, the Consents and Regulatory Committee was told on Tuesday.