The environmental performance of consent holders is closely monitored by the Council, with results reported to the community. The Council’s scientific and technical officers prepare 100-plus monitoring reports each year, most of them annual, biennial or triennial compliance reports covering large individual consent holders in most cases, or a number of smaller consent-holders – within a particular catchment, for example. There are also reports covering one-off activities such as exploration
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Preface
This is the first regional coastal plan prepared by the Taranaki Regional Council under
the Resource Management Act 1991. The passage of that Act brought about a major
reform of the way in which the coastline and coastal waters of New Zealand are
managed. The Taranaki Regional Council's responsibilities have been extended from its
water quality management role to include such functions as control of structure
placement, reclamation and foreshore works, noise emission
Industry Primary Industry Secondary Purpose Primary Purpose Secondary Activity Purpose
R2/0298-4.0 New Plymouth District Council Take Surface Water Local Government Recreational Recreational Replace
R2/1226-2.0 Todd Energy Limited Take Surface Water Energy Production Station Exploration and Production Replace
R2/6321-2.1 Westside Corporation Take produced water Energy Wellsite Exploration and Production Replace
Non-notified authorisations issued by the Taranaki Regional Council
between
Zealand’s only
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commercially producing oil and gas area and an area of
continuing exploration activity.
2.3 LANDFORMS AND SOILS
The Taranaki region consists of four distinctive
landforms (Figure 3), each of which requires a different
type of environmental management:
• the volcanic landscape and ring plain centred on
Mount Taranaki
• the dissected Taranaki hill country
• the coastal and inland
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Todd Energy Ltd
Deep Well Injection
Monitoring Programme
Annual Report
2023/24
Technical Report 2024-44
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Deep Well Injection
Monitoring Programme
Annual Report
2023/24
Technical Report 2024-44
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Stratford
ISSN:
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WestSide New Zealand Ltd
Rimu Production Station
Monitoring Programme
Annual Report
2023/24
Technical Report 2024-88
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WestSide New Zealand Ltd
Rimu Production Station
Monitoring Programme
Annual Report
2023/24
Technical Report 2024-88
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Minutes – 22 July 2025
Author: M Jones, Governance Administrator
Approved by: A D McLay, Director - Resource Management
Document: TRCID-1492626864-775
Recommendations
That Taranaki Regional Council:
a) takes as read and confirms the minutes of the Policy and Planning Committee meeting of the Taranaki
Regional Council held in the Taranaki Regional Council chambers, 47 Cloten Road, Stratford on
Tuesday 22 July 2025
b) notes the recommendations therein were adopted by
officers strongly
recommend that the responsible road controlling
authorities meet with the submitter (and other interested
parties) to go through his detailed plans and concept
drawings to explore opportunities for road safety
improvements and to address concerns raised.
Taranaki Regional Transport Committee Meeting - Hearing of submissions on the Regional Land Transport Plan 2021/22-2026/27
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Submission 2: Emma B
Submitter’s comments and requests
purpose of injection at the Cheal wellsites.
A schematic representation of injection wells for both waste discharge
and enhanced oil recovery is presented in Figure 1.
Further details regarding hydrocarbon exploration and production in
Taranaki, the DWI process and its history within region can be found in
previous compliance reports published by the Council (see
Bibliography).
Resource consents
Sections 15(1)(b) and (d) of the RMA stipulate that no person may
discharge any