the end of the report.
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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 social-economic effects;
(b) physical effects on the
The New Plymouth district is expected to experience high population growth.
Housing: In general, all housing indicators show upward trends. The cost of building or buying a
first home in New Plymouth has increased, with housing affordability also on the rise in the short
term.
Rent has continued to increase but the rate of change remains steady, alongside rental
affordability.
Subdivisions: The increase in sub-dividable consents and residential consent applications has …
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 cultural and social-
economic effects;
b. physical
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) natural and physical resources having
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 community around an activity, and may include
cultural
on Advocacy and Response activities for the 2016/2017 year
2. notes that thirty-one (31) submissions were made during the year on the policy
initiatives of other agencies
3. notes that senior staff were also involved in various working parties or other fora
on central government policy development and review projects.
Raine/McIntyre
Closing Karakia Mr M Ritai (Iwi Representative) gave the closing Karakia to the
Policy and Planning Committee and Karakia for kai (lunch).
resilient to existing or potential threats
Management threats and response
Potential and actual threats to the sustainability of the Lake Kairura’s
ecological values are as follows:
Threats to ecological
values
Level of
risk
Comment
Pest animals Medium to
high
Possums, cats, mustelids, hedgehogs, and rats
Weeds Low
Habitat modification Low to
medium
Grazing is a threat on unfenced margins
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Site protection measures
in the Kahouri Stream catchment, a tributary of the Patea River. The Company currently processes
beef. Wastewater is treated in a two pond system, which is either irrigated to land when conditions allow, or
to the Kahouri Stream during high flow conditions. This report for the period July 2016 to June 2017
describes the monitoring programme implemented by the Taranaki Regional Council (the Council) to assess
the Company’s environmental and consent compliance performance during the period
consent
holder for Council audit 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 2012-2013 monitoring
period. The Company has demonstrated a high level of environmental performance and
compliance with the resource consents exercised during this period.
For reference, in the 2012-2013 year, 35% of consent holders in Taranaki monitored through
alteration, extension, maintenance, or removal of up to three offshore
wellhead platforms and associated pipelines 22
Table 9 Summary of performance for Consent 5997-1 to discharge treated
stormwater from Pohokura Production Station to the Duck Pond 23
Table 10 Summary of performance for Consent 6002-1 to discharge emissions to air
from combustion of fuel gas and miscellaneous emissions at Pohokura
Production Station 24
Table 11 Summary of performance for Consent 6003-1 to discharge