during
the period under review. Both incidents were considered to be unforeseeable and related to
mechanical failures or unanticipated issues at the site. In addition both events were adequately
mitigated or remedied by Methanex after they occurred. 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 administrational performance has
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 cultural and social-
economic effects;
b. physical effects on the locality, including landscape,
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Working with people|caring for Taranaki
Smith, in early July 2015. The report shows great progress is
being made. Importantly, trends in both the ecological
health and the physical and chemical state of the region’s
waterways are the best ever recorded, and the region’s land,
air and coast are also in good or excellent shape.
Another important project has been the continuing review
of the current Freshwater and Soil Plans,
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 a discharger, and may
include cultural and social-economic effects;
(b) physical effects on the locality, including landscape, amenity and visual effects;
(c) ecosystems, including
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 cultural and social-
economic effects;
b. physical effects on the locality,
presents basic information on
common animal pests, and provides practical
guidelines on how to use a range of traps, toxins
and techniques for maximum success.
Some pests are intelligent enough to learn from
bad experiences and will quickly discover how to
avoid poisons, traps and spot lights if your first
attempts to kill them are not successful. Using a
range of traps, baits and techniques and cycling
toxins from one knockdown to the next, helps to
avoid a build-up of wise, bait or trap
inspections, two
discharge samples, 11 receiving water samples , two biomonitoring surveys of receiving
waters, and four ambient air quality analyses. No monitoring was scheduled or required at the
Marfell or Okoki landfill sites during the year under review.
During the monitoring year there were no incidents logged by Council associated with
NPDC’s landfills covered in this report.
Overall, NPDC demonstrated a high level of environmental performance and compliance with
their resource consents.
according to on site best
practice, the discharge was therefore unlikely to have had any significant or on-going
adverse effect on the receiving environment.
Shell Todd Oil Services Ltd notified the Council of its intention to combust gas
intermittently between 16 November 2013 and 20 December 2013. No offensive or
objectionable odours, smoke or dust associated with activities at the wellsite were observed.
The drilling fluids and cuttings were disposed of at a consented off site facility.
service or a lifeline utility,
or actual or imminent attack or warlike act (see full
definition in Annex A Glossary).
In most small incidents our emergency services (Police,
Fire and providers of health and disability services) can
cope on their own. Where they can’t, either due to the
scale of the event, or there is a need for more
legislative powers, then civil defence emergency
management measures are used. Activation of civil
defence emergency management
to be implemented in the 2016-2017 monitoring
year.
A glossary of common abbreviations and scientific terms, and a bibliography, are
presented at the end of the report.
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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