1.1.3 The Resource Management Act 1991 and monitoring
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 an activity, and may include cultural and socio-
economic effects;
b. physical effects on the locality, including landscape, amenity and visual effects;
c.
abattoir and rendering plant, located on Mountain Road at
Stratford, in the Kahouri Stream catchment, a tributary of the Patea River. The Company currently processes
only beef. Wastewater is treated in a two pond system, which is either irrigated to land when conditions
allow, or to the Kahouri Stream, ideally during high flow conditions. This report for the period July 2018 to
June 2019 describes the monitoring programme implemented by the Taranaki Regional Council (the
Council) to assess the
types of materials being received and how the discharge to land is
being managed.
During the year, the consent holder demonstrated a high level of environmental performance
and compliance with the resource consents. There were no incidents logged or complaints
received by Council about the site during the period under review.
This report includes recommendations for the 2013-2014 year.
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operations.
A glossary of common abbreviations and scientific terms, and a bibliography, are
presented at the end of the report.
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1.1.3 The Resource Management Act (1991) and monitoring
The Resource Management Act 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,
preventing or minimising adverse effects on the
environment from emissions to air from pig farming. It
also provides a general indication of the matters that
the regional council may consider and the nature of
the conditions that might be attached to a resource
consent for the discharge of contaminants into the air
from piggeries (refer rules 47 to 50).
Applicants and resource consent holders will also be
expected to demonstrate that they are giving effect to
formalise this arrangement.
Regional Transport Committee
Creation and membership of Committee
7. The Land Transport Management Act 2003 (LTMA) requires the reconstitution of each
Regional Transport Committee following triennial local body elections.
8. Following the local government elections in October 2019, the Regional Transport
Committee (RTC or the Committee) is now required to be reconstituted. The RTC
consists of only those agencies that make a funding contribution, and …
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‘effects’ which are defined as positive or
adverse, temporary or permanent, past, present or future, or cumulative. Effects may
arise in relation to:
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(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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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, animals, or habitats, whether aquatic
recommendations 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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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