implementing.
Recommendation three is in progress. A draft management plan was submitted for iwi consultation in June
2024.
Alterations to monitoring programmes for 2024-2025
In designing and implementing the monitoring programmes for air/water discharges in the region, the
Council has taken into account:
• the extent of information already made available through monitoring or other means to date;
• its relevance under the RMA;
• the Council’s obligations to monitor consented activities and
among other things, taking into
account the Treaty of Waitangi. Furthermore, schedule
10 of the Local Government Act 2002 requires the
Council to set out in its long-term plan any steps it
intends to take to foster the development of Māori
capacity to contribute to the decision making processes
over the period covered by the Plan. There are eight
recognised iwi in the region, Ngaa Rauru Kiitahi, Ngati
Ruanui, Ngāruahine, Taranaki Iwi, Te Atiawa, Ngati
Mutunga,
Coastal Plan submissions A-F
… be the largest single project
in Council’s history.
THE ROLE OF IWI
These reforms also give tangata whenua a greater role in freshwater management by focusing on Te Mana o Te Wai (the
integrated and holistic well-being of water) and requiring a partnership approach to developing plans and managing
activities.
This increased role mirrors the desire of iwi o Taranaki to exercise Mātauranga Māori (Māori knowledge, cultural practices
and world view) over the resources within their
statements prepared under the RMA and also take into account
matters identified in iwi management plans as well as district plans.
The figure below summarises this hierarchy of planning documents.
How does the Natural Resources Plan
relate to other policy documents and
plans?
Resource management reforms - the development of a Strategic Planning
Act and the Natural and Built Environments Act.
Development of various national policy statements and national
environmental standards.
Approach to
through the reviewed plan (in
accordance with s6(f) of the RMA).
Targeted consultation on the draft study was
undertaken with feedback being sought from
the following organisations who have a broad
range of interest in the CMA.
Department of Conservation
Fish and Game New Zealand
Forest and Bird
Ngā Motu Marine Reserve Society
Ngati Tama
Ngati Mutunga
Te Atiawa
Taranaki iwi
Ngāruahine
Ngati Ruanui
Ngaa Rauru
New Plymouth
through the reviewed plan (in
accordance with s6(f) of the RMA).
Targeted consultation on the draft study was
undertaken with feedback being sought from
the following organisations who have a broad
range of interest in the CMA.
Department of Conservation
Fish and Game New Zealand
Forest and Bird
Ngā Motu Marine Reserve Society
Ngati Tama
Ngati Mutunga
Te Atiawa
Taranaki iwi
Ngāruahine
Ngati Ruanui
Ngaa Rauru
New Plymouth
so there was no need for the Council to notify
the Iwi as is the usual case for incidents with environmental effects.
2.8 The Vector flyover pipeline inspection on the 14th September 2010 did not observe
anything of concern along the pipeline easement, so it can be assumed the leak
started approximately between 14th September and 8th October.
2.9 Immediately after the leak was discovered, three pipelines located in an easement,
close to the leak point, were depressurised and use
communicated via usual channels.
A documentary examining the impact of oil and gas exploration on the region “A
Fracking Tour of Taranaki” was launched in mid-September. Former Director-
Environment Quality Gary Bedford was interviewed.
TRC responded to an interview request regarding reported concerns that iwi are
being improperly consulted regarding resource consent applications.
Talking Taranaki newsletter was published to subscribers and in community papers.
Freshwater-related
Maori
and the region as a whole. The next
Government must continue to make the
completion of Treaty settlements in
Taranaki a priority.
Good progress has been made on Treaty
settlements with all bar one (of eight) iwi
having now settled their Treaty claims. The
remaining iwi (Ngati Maru) are currently in
negotiations with the Crown. Claims
relating to the Mounga are under
negotiation. A reconciliation between the
Crown and Parihaka has recently been
completed (9 June 2017) and a