at Port Taranaki during the year. One of which
involved a tallow spill from the GrainCorp Liquid Terminals NZ Ltd (GrainCorp) site within Port Taranaki,
which led to discharges of tallow and untreated wastewater into the Port Taranaki Harbour. The Council are
proceeding with a prosecution over the incident.
During the year, Downer, Technix, NZOSL and Methanex obtained a high rating for environmental and high
rating for administrative performance and compliance with the resource consents. …
don’t panic! If officers suspect possums are
greater than a 10% catch rate (or 10 possums caught in
100 traps) you may be issued with a Notice of Direction.
This is a formal legal document that may seem a bit scary
but essentially it’s a formal reminder that you need to
undertake control by a set date. We then re-check to
make sure numbers have reduced. If they haven’t you
will have failed to comply and further action can be
taken.
Questions? Need advice or help?
Contact your
Regional
Council area, but it is not my fulltime
residence. How do I get on the ratepayer
electoral roll?
A Is your name on the rates notice?
➢ Yes
You may be eligible to be on the ratepayer
electoral roll.
A non-resident ratepayer enrolment form is
available from each constituent territorial
authority’s website:
- New Plymouth District Council
www.npdc.govt.nz
- Stratford District Council
www.stratford.govt.nz
- South Taranaki District Council
Council to continually re-evaluate its approach
and that of consent holders to resource management and, ultimately, through the refinement of methods
and considered responsible resource utilisation, to move closer to achieving sustainable development of the
region’s resources.
1.1.4 Evaluation of environmental and administrative performance
Besides discussing the various details of the performance and extent of compliance by the Company, this
report also assigns them a rating for their
interventions and any evidence of a change in attainment of the NPS-FM
swimmability criteria; the very high rate of attainment of swimmability in Taranaki
if assessed against EU criteria instead of NPS-FM criteria; and the absence of any
correlation between nutrient trends and macroinvertebrate community health
trends
4. notes the report’s findings highlight the potential dangers of a ‘one size fits all’
problem analysis and solution imposition to water quality interventions at a
national level
activities [emphasis added], but
excludes low density free-range poultry.
Low density free range poultry means the keeping, rearing or breeding of poultry (whether
for the purpose of raising poultry for human consumption or for egg production) where:
birds have permanent access to open air runs;
permanent vegetation cover exists on the land where birds are permitted to range;
the stocking rate of the runs to which the birds have access does not exceed 1.5 birds
including chickens
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Appendices
Appendix 1: Charging Policies
Resource Management Act Charging Policy
Schedule of charges pursuant to section 36 of the Resource Management Act 1991
Schedule 1: Scale of charges for staff time
Rate for processing resource consents and
responding to pollution incidents.
Rate for all other Council work.
Professional staff $94/hr $89/hr
Professional/supervisory staff $118/hr $110/hr
Managers $171/hr $160/hr
Support staff $94/hr
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Appendix 6: Charging Policies
Resource Management Act Charging Policy
Schedule of charges pursuant to section 36 of the Resource Management Act 1991
Schedule 1: Scale of charges for staff time
Rate for processing resource consents and
responding to pollution incidents.
Rate for all other Council work.
Professional staff $92/hr $87/hr
Professional/supervisory staff $116/hr $108/hr
Managers $168/hr $157/hr
Support staff $92/hr $87/hr
Directors
refinement of methods
and considered responsible resource utilisation, to move closer to achieving sustainable development of the
region’s resources.
1.1.4 Evaluation of environmental and administrative performance
Besides discussing the various details of the performance and extent of compliance by the consent holder
during the period under review, this report also assigns a rating as to the Company’s environmental and
administrative performance.
Environmental performance is concerned with
current year. They also generate 319 full-time equivalent jobs
(FTEs).
The Port’s important enabling role can be seen from the estimates that its users and
service providers are likely to generate $353 million in Value Added (GDP) the current year,
and 929 FTEs.
The Port also plays an important role in other ways. It facilitate the imports and exports
of the Region’s industries, the dividends it pays help to keep the Regional rates burden in
check, and it sponsors and supports