interpretations, and their significance for the environment.
Section 4 presents recommendations to be implemented in the 2017-2018 monitoring year.
A glossary of common abbreviations and scientific terms, and a bibliography, are presented at the end of
the report.
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
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 or terrestrial;
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d. natural and physical resources having
significance for the
environment.
Section 4 presents recommendations to be implemented in the 2013-2014 monitoring
year.
A 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 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
significance for the
environment.
Section 4 presents recommendations to be implemented in the 2013-2014 monitoring
year.
A 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 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
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report.
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 a discharger, and may
include cultural and social-economic effects;
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(b) physical effects on the locality, including
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 a discharger, and may
include cultural and socio-economic effects;
(b) physical effects on the locality, including landscape, amenity and visual effects;
(c) ecosystems, including
activities
undertaken by GPL had no adverse effects on local groundwater or surface water resources.
There were no unauthorised incidents recording non-compliance in respect of the resource
consents, or provisions in regional plans, during the period under review.
GPL demonstrated a high level of environmental and administrative performance and
compliance with the resource consent over the reporting period.
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For reference, in the 2012-2013 year, 35% of consent holders
programme on
unnamed tributaries of the Manganui River. 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 Todd had no significant adverse effects on local groundwater or surface water
resources. There were
decisions should they be stuck at
home, can’t get home, have to evacuate or
have no power, water, phone or internet.
What about fire drills in schools?
A fire drill is a method of practising how a
school should be evacuated in the event of a
fire. Usually, the school's existing fire alarm
system is activated and the school is
evacuated as if the emergency is occurring.
Students and teachers should practise getting
out of, and away from the school buildings as