emission data to be provided, with supporting rationale, to the Council.
The Company has also confirmed they will continue with biennial stack testing of both these units, with
stack testing commissioned for December 2020.
No odours were noted or communicated during the monitoring period.
During the year, the Company demonstrated a high level of environmental and a high level of administrative
performance with respect to their resource consents.
For reference, in the 2019-2020
interpretations, and their significance for the environment.
Section 4 presents recommendations to be implemented in the 2020-2021 monitoring year.
A glossary of common abbreviations and scientific terms, and a 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 …
Committee, for further
consideration at the Ordinary Meeting of 18 May 2021
d) determines that this decision be recognised as not significant in terms of section 76
of the Local Government Act 2002
e) determines 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, determines that it does not require further
information, further assessment of options or
not necessarily be limited to:
i. Compliance with the management plans;
ii. Success of the management plans in ensuring compliance with the consent conditions;
iii. Reviewing any significant changes to activities or methods and/or unanticipated adverse effects resulting from
the activities or methods to give effect to the consent conditions;
iv. Any changes to roles and responsibilities of personnel responsible for site operations and management;
v. Any changes to the location
odour.
Given the AFT proposal is for an upgraded operation, air dispersion modelling
and experience with a similar system elsewhere are very relevant and historical
performance less so, although historical performance provides a baseline. I
cannot recall having seen odour diaries as an assessment method as part of an
application for consent.
9 My experience with odour diaries is that they are typically used in evidence for
enforcement; or where there is a compliance
a. The consent holder shall pay to the Taranaki Regional Council all the administration,
monitoring and supervision costs of this consent, fixed in accordance with section 36
of the Resource Management Act 1991.
Special conditions
1. The rate of discharge shall not exceed 3,900 litres per second.
2. The consent holder shall install and maintain signage, or other suitable facilities at the
site of discharge, for public safety purposes, warning the public that there may be a
(especially natural gas), the questionability of an expanded
renewable electricity network being available in the future, and the Council's long-
established experience of consenting GHG emitters in the region in a manner that drives
efficiency, officers are suggesting that for the reasons set out further below, the Council
can:
support but with clarification, the proposal to ban any new low or medium
temperature coal boilers;
support the proposal to phase out existing low or medium
technical data.
Section 3 discusses the results, their interpretations, and their significance for the environment.
Section 4 presents recommendations to be implemented in the 2020-2021 monitoring year.
A glossary of common abbreviations and scientific terms, and a 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 …
June 2021.
Background
2. Pursuant to the Land Transport Management Act 2003 (the LTMA), a new Regional Land
Transport Plan for Taranaki (RLTP or the Plan) is required to be prepared by the
Regional Transport Committee, adopted by the Taranaki Regional Council, and then
forwarded to Waka Kotahi by 30 June 2021.
3. Consequently, a draft Plan was prepared and consulted on as part of the public
consultation process pursuant to section 83 of the Local Government Act 2002.
Taranaki
to control Old man’s beard in the Kaupokonui and Waingongoro catchments; and
The Plan focuses on eradication or sustained control programmes (for which rules apply). Non-regulatory
programmes and activities for other harmful organisms are addressed in the Taranaki Regional Council Biosecurity
Strategy 2018–2038, which is a companion document to this Plan.
Some prioritising has necessarily been required to identify those pests that are of most concern, and which meet the