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 effects;
c. ecosystems, including effects on plants, …
Map - Key Native Ecosystems – private and publicly managed.
WHAT MAKES KEY NATIVE
ECOSYSTEMS REGIONALLY
SIGNIFICANT?
Key Native Ecosystems are regionally significant
because they are:
home to threatened or regionally distinctive
indigenous plant and animal species, or
representative of originally rare ecosystems
and indigenous vegetation now much
reduced from its original extent (<10 or
20%), and/or
connect or buffer other sites of value,
or provide seasonal or
Witness Code of Conduct set out in
the Environment Court’s Practice Note 2014. I have complied with the
Code of Conduct in preparing this evidence and agree to comply with it
while giving evidence. Except where I state that I am relying on another
person's evidence, this written evidence is within my area of expertise. I
have not omitted to consider material facts known to me that might alter
or detract from the opinions expressed in this evidence.
2. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
submission at any consent hearing.
If others make a similar submission, I/we will consider
presenting a joint case with them at the hearing.
Yes
Request for independent commisioner/s
Pursuant to section 100A of the Resource Management Act
1991, I request that the Taranaki Regional Council delegates
its functions, powers, and duties required to hear and decide
the application to one or more hearing commissioners who
are not Taranaki Regional Councilors.
NA
Note: Such a request may be
Possum Self-help The site falls outside the possum self-help area.
Herbivores - High The property lies outside the self help possum boundary. The back
block and roadside blocks are mostly or fully fenced to exclude
stock, while the middle block is able to be accessed by stock and
has evidently been grazed through.
Habitat Modification - Medium The back block and roadside blocks are mostly or fully fenced to
exclude stock. Remaining areas will be proposed to be fenced in
conjunction with
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 relation to:
a. the neighbourhood or the wider …
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 effects;
c. ecosystems, including effects on plants, animals, or habitats, whether aquatic or terrestrial;
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d. …
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 further analysis of costs and benefits, or
advantages and disadvantages prior to making a decision on this matter.
Ordinary Meeting - Hearing of Submissions on the Maori Constituency
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Background
2. Parliament has recently changed
before the Environment Court. My qualifications as an
expert are set out above. I confirm that the issues addressed in this brief
of evidence are within my area of expertise. I have not omitted to consider
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material facts known to me that might alter or detract from the opinions
expressed.
Background and Role
7. I was engaged by Remediation (NZ) Ltd in March 2018 and my scope of
work included:
a. Development of an Integrated
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 relation to:
a. the neighbourhood or the wider community around an activity, and may include …