of
environmental performance and compliance for 76% of the consents monitored through the Taranaki
tailored monitoring programmes, while for another 20% of the consents, a good level of environmental
performance and compliance was achieved
In terms of overall environmental and compliance performance by the consent holder over the last several
years, this report shows that the consent holder’s performance remains at a good or high level.
This report includes recommendations for the
maintained and the silt controls were further improved. There were no discharges of unauthorised
wood waste or other materials found at inspection. There were no unauthorised incidents recording non-
compliance in respect of this consent holder during the period under review.
During the year, the Company demonstrated a high level of environmental and administrative performance
with the resource consent.
For reference, in the 2016-2017 year, 74% of consent holders in Taranaki monitored through
discharge of cooling water across land to stormwater as a result of a failed pump. Both incidents were
considered to be reasonably unforeseeable and related to mechanical failures or unanticipated issues at the
site. In addition both events were adequately responded to by Methanex. For this reason no enforcement
response was considered appropriate or necessary.
During the year, Methanex demonstrated a High level of environmental performance with the resource
consents at both facilities. Their
things, requires regional councils, when making rules, to effectively adopt the best
practicable option to prevent or minimise actual or likely water pollution. Given that
continuously allowing the discharge of treated effluent from pond systems is no longer
considered best practice, the question is no longer about whether there will be changes in the way
we currently manage farm dairy effluent in the region but rather what and how big that change
should be.
This working paper entitled
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;
d. natural and physical
a
completely new roofed Stadium (Option 8 - $271 million).
It was noted that the Council had considered ‘half-way’ options of demolishing and/or removing the roof of one
or other stand, but dismissed them because any benefits were far outweighed by the costs. It was also noted
that any option costing more than $55 million would require co-funding from another party or parties, and no
obvious candidates had so far been forthcoming.
The Council’s preferred option was a project budgeted …
or chronic exposure guidelines in 16 of the 18 results. None of the 24 instream samples taken
during the period under review exceeded the 0.025 g/m3 Regional Freshwater Plan unionised ammonia
guideline or the 0.9 g/m3 total ammonia national guideline.
Also noted during the period under review were the lower than expected macroinvertebrate community
index (MCI) values found in the middle and lower reaches of the stream during the spring
macroinvertebrate survey. This may have been
mitigation
In more recent years a number of regional councils have prepared regional plans that intend to regulate
land use activities to manage nutrient losses and thereby maintain or enhance water quality, and a
number of tools/models have been used in some instances in order to estimate and thereby regulate
nutrient losses and demonstrate compliance. As regional councils prepare and review regional land and
water plans, a range of mechanisms are being incorporated into plans
and their significance for the
environment.
Section 4 presents a summary of recommendations to be implemented in the 2014-2015
monitoring year.
A glossary of common abbreviations and scientific terms, and a bibliography, are
presented at the end of the report.
The Resource Management Act 1991 and monitoring 1.1.3
The Resource Management Act 1991 (RMA) primarily addresses environmental ‘effects’
which are defined as positive or adverse, temporary or permanent, past, present or
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The Resource Management Act 1991 and monitoring 1.1.3.
The Resource Management Act 1991 (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 a discharger, and may
include cultural and socio-economic effects;
(b) physical effects on the locality, including landscape, amenity and