Sections 15(1)(b) and (d) of the RMA stipulate that no person may discharge any
contaminant onto land if it may then enter water, or from any industrial or trade
premises onto land under any circumstances, unless the activity is expressly allowed
for by a resource consent, a rule in a regional plan, or by national regulations.
BTW holds discharge permit 7884-1.1 to cover the discharge of wastes from
hydrocarbon exploration drilling operations with water based muds and synthetic
based muds, and
Taranaki Regional Council wants the public’s views on six key focus areas as it looks at how to meet the challenges the region faces over the next decade. Feedback on the draft 2024/2034 Long-Term Plan (LTP) will run from 10 March to 12 April with the views set to shape the Council’s strategic direction and funding. Decisions have to be made on six areas which are crucial to many of the work programmes the Council delivers including how it continues to care for freshwater, protect biodiversity,
there is any change in soil health, and if so, the direction of that change in relation to previously assessed samples. Sixteen of our consent monitoring programmes also have a soil health or soil quality monitoring component to ensure the consented activity does not adversely affect soil health. Regional results
Results from the most recent survey, October to November 2012, showed that 81% of soil samples met target ranges for soil productivity and health. Biological functioning was consistent
It all started with one native plant. It was 1996 and Taranaki Regional Council had just launched its ground-breaking Riparian Management Programme as a way to help protect the region’s waterways. That first plant left the depot and was planted on one of Taranaki’s hundreds of rivers and streams. This marked the beginning of one of New Zealand’s most successful collaboration programmes between farmers, the community and the Council to improve the quality of freshwater and ecosystems. Some 28
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Application
Number
Consent
Number
Applicant Lodged Date Application Type Description Activity Type Location Catchment
22-06562-2.0 6562-2.0 NZEC Waihapa Limited 22-Feb-22 Replacement for expiring consent To discharge treated stormwater and treated produced water from hydrocarbon exploration and production operations at the
Goss-A wellsite onto and into land in the vicinity of an unnamed tributary of the Ngaere Stream
Discharge Permit Goss-A wellsite, Wingrove Road,
resource consent, a rule in a regional plan, or by national regulations.
The Company holds discharge consent 7613-1.1, to discharge drilling wastes (consisting
of drilling cuttings and fluids) from hydrocarbon exploration activities with water
based muds and synthetic based muds, onto and into land via landfarming. This
consent was issued by the Council on 23 March 2010 as a resource consent under
Section 87(e) of the RMA. It is due to expire on 1 June 2024.
Condition 1 sets out definitions.
Non-Compliance and enforcement summary 63
8. Regional LiDAR PGF/LINZ Project Update 113
9. Riparian Programme Audit Report April 2023 116
10. Public Excluded
11. Public Excluded Recommendations 191
12. Confirmation of Public Excluded Minutes Operations and Regularity Committee - 14 March
2023
192
13. Agenda Authorisaion 195
Operations and Regulatory Committee - Agenda
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Is there an annoying vine in your garden with large green pods containing a milky sap? If so, it could be moth plant – a pest plant that Taranaki Regional Council wants to destroy. The Council's biosecurity team is on a moth plant mission, for a couple of reasons. Firstly, we recently discovered a few large plants in the New Plymouth ‘hot spots’ of Fitzroy, Waiwhakaiho, Glen Avon, Westown and the central city. Moth plant is a prolific seeder, with each pod containing thousands of seeds easily
One of the priorities of the Council's Biodiversity Strategy is to work with landowners, mana whenua and the community to protect, maintain and restore those sites which have significant biodiversity values—our Key Native Ecosystems (KNEs). Our goal is to protect and maintain the full suite of indigenous ecosystems within the region. What is a KNE?
While all remnant bush areas, wetlands, coastal turfs and dunelands in the region are important, since 2006 the Council has identified the ‘jewels
could include:
• Investigate the use of forest and bush areas.
• Draw a map of New Zealand and show where the regional and national
parks and reserves are located.
• Tourism and trees - write about it!
• Explore conservation issues ... stating opinions and justifying them.
• Look at logging history and the uses of wood in the past, present and
future.
• Find out about people who live in forests – today and in the past.
• Follow the journey of a log and the energy