2 The Resource Management Act (1991) and monitoring 1.1.3 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, and may include cultural and socio-economic effects; (b) physical effects on the locality, including landscape, amenity and visual effects;
unnamed tributary of the Waiau Stream. Samples of hydraulic fracturing fluids, and fluids returning to the wellhead post-fracturing, were also obtained for physicochemical analysis in order to characterise the discharges and to determine compliance with consent conditions. The monitoring carried out by the Council indicates that the hydraulic fracturing activities undertaken by GPL had no significant adverse effects on local groundwater or surface water resources. There were no unauthorised
are presented at the end of the report. page 2 The Resource Management Act (1991) and monitoring 1.1.3 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, and may include cultural and socio-economic effects; (b) physical effects on
glossary of 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
vegetation (classified as ‘Acutely Threatened’ indigenous vegetation under LENZ environment F5.2b and ‘Chronically Threatened’ D2.1b), with a canopy consisting predominantly of karaka (Corynocarpus laevigatus), taupata (Coprosma repens) and harakeke/flax (Phormium tenax). No notable or regionally distinctive species were recorded on the day although may be present. Fauna Native birdlife recorded in and around the covenanted area include the grey warbler (Gerygone
the economy. Even the 1995-1996 Ruapehu eruptions, although small by world standards, highlighted the vulnerability of society to minor eruptions. A further consideration is that, more often than not, indications of subsurface volcanic activity, such as increased earthquakes or above-ground gas changes, may not result in an eruption. These “unrest” phenomena may be hazardous in themselves, and cause uncertainty in the population and decision makers (for instance, which areas should be
Application Purpose: New To undertake earthworks relating to harvesting a plantation forestry Rohe: Ngati Mutunga (Statutory Acknowledgement) Engagement or consultation: Te Runanga o Ngati Mutunga Comment on application received #2318219-v1 Consents and Regulatory Committee - Resource consents issued under delegated authority and applications in progress 12 page Non-notified authorisations issued by the Taranaki Regional
15(1)(b) of the Local Government (Rating) Act 2002, a uniform annual general charge (to produce $3,262,654) of $60.95—GST inclusive for every separately used or inhabited part of a rating unit in the Taranaki region. Separately used or inhabited part of a rating unit (SUIP): A SUIP is defined as a separately used or occupied part of a rating unit and includes any part of a rating unit that is used or occupied by any person, other than the ratepayer, having a right to use or inhabit that part
the consents, including upgrading the fish pass, undertaking monitoring of the erosion of the river bed and banks around the scheme, and monitoring of the effects of the scheme on the residual flow reach. This includes no or inadequate baseline information being collected on the trout communities and recreational activities of the residual flow reach, despite the scheme now being operated whenever flows allow. Of most concern, was the provision of false data. In this case, the Company had
terms, and a bibliography, are presented at the end of the report. 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, and may include cultural and socio-economic effects; (b) physical effects on the