supplied by the Company
have been used in compiling this report.
The Council did not receive any complaints or register any unauthorised incidents
associated with any of the Company’s DWI activities during the 2013-2014 monitoring
period.
During the year, the Company demonstrated a high level of environmental and
administrative performance with the resource consents. For reference, in the 2013-2014 year,
60% of consent holders in Taranaki monitored through tailored compliance monitoring
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,
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,
conditions setting out the
requirements that they must satisfy. Fonterra holds four consents to allow it to take and use
water and for associated structures, eight consents to discharge stormwater, sediment, and
back flushing from sand filters (and their associated structures) into the unnamed tributaries
of the Tangahoe, Tawhiti and an unnamed coastal stream, or to land where it may enter
water, six consents to discharge wastewater to the Tasman Sea along with associated
structures, two consents
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
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
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CHAIRMAN AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE’S REPORT
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,
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.