and Manutahi-D wellsites,
located at the end of Lower Ball Road in South Taranaki. The resource consents held by the Company permit
the discharge of a range of fluids by DWI, including heated water and produced water. The consents include
a number of special conditions which set out specific requirements the Company must satisfy.
This report covers the results and findings of the monitoring programme implemented by the Council in
respect of the DWI consents held by the Company. This is
South Taranaki water supplies resource consent compliance monitoring report 2020-2021
rich indigenous aquatic fauna.
TRC MONITORING DATA AND REPORTS
TRC compliance report 2019/2020
41. I have reviewed some of the earlier TRC compliance reports for the RNZ site.
However, I focus only on the latest report for the purposes of this evidence.5 In the
sections which follow I also provide my own analysis of the data collected by TRC in
2019 and 2020.
5 Uruti and Waitara Road Monitoring Programme: Annual Report 2019-2020. Draft pending
Remediation New
Executive, Audit & Risk Committee agenda December 2020
Policy & Planning Committee agenda April 2018
The consents authorise discharges from two
separate wellsites within the Company’s oil and gas fields; the Manutahi-B and Manutahi-D wellsites,
located at the end of Lower Ball Road in South Taranaki. The resource consents held by the Company permit
the discharge of a range of fluids by DWI, including heated water and produced water. The consents include
a number of special conditions which set out specific requirements the Company must satisfy.
This report covers the results and findings
ecological district in the North Island.
It is steep and hilly with deeply cut rivers, and
extensive tracts of lowland forest. It is sparsely
settled with few roads and no large urban
areas. The rainforest in Matemateaonga
district is nationally important for species of
native wildlife that require extensive lowland
forests. The Whanganui National Park and
its river are particularly outstanding.
North Taranaki Ecological District
(166,300 ha, 65% within
completely
forested. It has a great variety of forest types
as well as non-forested coastal communities,
estuaries, and freshwater wetlands. It is the
southern limit for a number of important plant
species such as pohutukawa and karo.
Matemateaonga Ecological District
(223,400 ha, 43% within Taranaki) is the
largest ecological district in the North Island.
It is steep and hilly with deeply cut rivers, and
extensive tracts of lowland forest. It is sparsely
settled with few roads and no
back with time
and temperature to a liquid state and are flowed back to surface without disturbing the
proppant wedge. With continued flow, fluids pumped as part of hydraulic fracturing
process, formation fluids and hydrocarbons are drawn to the surface.
1.2.2 Kowhai-B wellsite history
The Kowhai-B wellsite has been in operation since 2012. The area around the wellsite
and Ngatimaru Road is rural with low population density. The site lies in an active
petroleum exploration area,