Planning Committee - Agenda
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Purpose of Policy and Planning Committee meeting
This committee attends to all matters of policy developed either in-house or by third parties.
Responsibilities
Prepare and review regional policy statements, plans and strategies and convene as a
Hearing Committee as and when required for the hearing of submissions.
Monitor plan and policy implementation.
Develop biosecurity policy.
Advocate, as appropriate, for …
While the State of the Environment Report 2015 considers environmental trends and changes over the past
five to 20 years or more, its fundamental purpose is to provide an outlook to the future. Collating and
analysing the large amount of data we collect in our daily work, and identifying trends in each aspect of
the environment, help us answer questions about:
the state of our natural and physical resources and the direction each aspect of the environment
is heading
the
Oil Spill
Beach clean-up
Seashore study
Classifying
Adaptations
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Curriculum Links
Links with New Zealand curriculum statements
Science Making Sense of the Living World
Achievement objectives and possible learning experiences
Level 1
• observing small plants or animals and reading books about their main functions
• exploring a beach and observing the different plants and animals that live there
Level 2
• establishing some 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, amenity and visual effects;
(c) ecosystems,
or all, of the Yarrow Stadium grounds to developers for sub-division as it is in a great area, also the various other community sports grounds such as the Netball courts
beside the Waiwhakaiho River could be sold. You could charge a small fee for parking at the multi-sports hub when it is finished. Some of the larger businesses in Taranaki such as TSB, Todd
energy, Fonterra, etc. could be approached for sponsorship of the stadium and smaller businesses for the infrastructure of the surrounding
simple and convenient form
for general public information and education
purposes. The information contained in this Appendix
also provides general guidance on the best practicable
option for preventing or minimising adverse effects on
the environment of agrichemical spraying. It also
provides a general indication of the nature of the
conditions that might be attached to a resource
consent for the spraying of agrichemicals.
Nothing in this Appendix shall amend
Provides additional habitat and greater connectivity with other Key Native
Ecosystems such as the Waiwiri Wetlands and other protected habitats in
this area.
Sustainability Positive Key ecological processes still influence the site and with appropriate
management, it can remain resilient to existing or potential threats. The
site will have the additional benefit of being formally protected.
Threats to ecological
values
Potential
threat
Comment
Pest animals High
water and to a lesser extent
through feed and contaminated dust. Sheep eat an estimated
125 g of soil per day and cows about 1kg. Wet muddy conditions,
short pasture, feeding out of hay and silage, and consumption
of fodder crops such as turnips and chowmollier can increase
the amount of soil eaten by stock. Where residues are present,
animals that dig or disturb the soil, including pigs, chickens and
bulls, will have increased exposure to organochlorine pesticides.
There are regulatory
that the reefs had
become more polluted (than by the river-borne wastes) since the marine outfall was
installed (1978). Evidence was given of “sick mussels” on Orapa Reef, which were
reported to be fragile and to crumble when walked on or even squeezed by hand. It
was accepted by the Tribunal that a combination of coastal alignment and prevailing
winds was responsible for driving Waitara sewage and wastes further east along the
coast, even as far as Motunui.
has focused on the nature of potential effects arising
from the use of hydraulic fracturing (HF) fluids within production enhancement activities,
as these fluids include compounds additional to those used in drilling. These compounds
will include biocides, gelling and gel-breaking agents, inert proppants such as sand or
microscopic ceramic beads, and ‘slicking’ agents.
Normal exploration practice is to separate the recovered fluids from the entrained
hydrocarbon gas. However, under