… Williamson
New Plymouth
Tom Cloke
New Plymouth
David Lean
Deputy Chairman
New Plymouth
Donald McIntyre
North Taranaki
Michael Joyce
South Taranaki
David MacLeod
Chairman
South Taranaki
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Mihi whakatau
Welcome David MacLeod, TRC Chairman
Presentation of awards
Ÿ Environmental action in education
Ÿ Environmental leadership in land
management
Ÿ Te taiao me te pākihi
– Environmental leadership in business
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with the building
blocks of a new, combined Regional Freshwater and Land
Management Plan now firmly in place. In its draft form, the
plan signals a switch to land disposal as the norm for dairy
effluent treatment, and also proposes to lock in completion
of the Council’s world-scale Riparian Management
Programme by mid 2020. Notably, and in contrast to some
other regions, it does not propose to introduce nutrient caps
and limits beyond the mandatory requirement. Our research
suggests there
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Resource investigations and projects ....................................................................................................................................................................... 9
Waste minimisation ........................................................................................................................................................................................................ 11
Sustainable land management plans and plant supply
resource
management, including for integrated management.
Provide the rules by which air, land and freshwater
activities are either permitted without a resource
consent, allowed through the approval of a resource
consent, or prohibited.
Set out the matters which need to be considered,
given effect to, or managed in relation to permitted
or consented activities.
The Council is undertaking a full review of its Regional
Policy Statement, Regional Freshwater Plan, Regional Air
Plan and Regional Soil
financial information included in this
memorandum has been prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting practice.
Policy considerations
This memorandum and the associated recommendations are consistent with the policy
documents and positions adopted by this Council under various legislative frameworks
including, but not restricted to, the Local Government Act 2002 and the Land Transport
Management Act 2003.
Regional Transport Committee - Minutes of the Regional
the results and findings of the monitoring programme implemented by the Council in
respect of the consents held by NPDC that relate to discharges of air, treated wastewater and sludge
leachate, a marine outfall structure and a culvert.
One of the intents of the Resource Management Act 1991 (RMA) is that environmental management should
be integrated across all media, so that a consent holder’s use of water, air, and land should be considered
from a single comprehensive environmental …
of wastes to land 5
1.4 Monitoring programme 6
1.4.1 Introduction 6
1.4.2 Programme liaison and management 6
1.4.3 Site inspections 6
2. Results 7
2.1 Inspections 7
2.2 Investigations, interventions, and incidents 7
3. Discussion 8
3.1 Discussion of site performance 8
3.2 Environmental effects of exercise of consents 8
3.3 Evaluation of performance 9
3.4 Recommendations from the 2012-2013 Annual Report 10
3.5 Alterations to monitoring programmes for 2014-2015 10
4.
121. In the legal submission of Ms Ongley and the statement of evidence from Mr Tuuta, and
others, reference was made to the Ngāti Mutunga Iwi Management Plan which states “natural
and physical resources are managed in a holistic and integrated way”.
122. Ngāti Mutunga contend that the proposed activity is inconsistent with this approach and also
Te Mana o Te Wai.
123. Ngāti Mutunga consider water is not a commodity to benefit land based production, nor does
water exist to receive
Discharges of wastes to land 4
1.4 Monitoring programme 6
1.4.1 Introduction 6
1.4.2 Programme liaison and management 6
1.4.3 Site inspections 6
1.4.4 Biomonitoring surveys 6
2 Results 7
2.1 Inspections 7
2.2 Biomonitoring survey 7
2.3 Investigations, interventions, and incidents 8
3 Discussion 9
3.1 Discussion of site performance 9
3.2 Environmental effects of exercise of consents 9
3.3 Evaluation of performance 9
3.4 Recommendations from the 2014-2016 Biennial Report
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Table 3: Plan of action for Accord partners to manage indigenous biodiversity in the Taranaki
region ........................................................................................................................................................... 21
Table 4: Land Environments of New Zealand (LENZ): threat classifications relating to Taranaki 31
Table 5: Historically rare