describes the monitoring programme
implemented by the Taranaki Regional Council (the Council) to assess the environmental
performance of the companies operating in and around Port Taranaki, New Plymouth. Port
Taranaki Limited operates Port Taranaki. Downer New Zealand Limited and Technix
Taranaki Terminal Limited operate bitumen plants within the bounds of the port. Methanex
Motunui Limited operates a methanol storage facility at the port, and New Zealand Oil
Services Limited provides terminal
wellsite, located at Turangi Road,
Motunui. The wellsite lies within the Waiau catchment and contains six hydrocarbon
producing wells and associated infrastructure.
Todd hold resource consent 7971-2, authorising the discharge of contaminants associated with
hydraulic fracturing activities into land at depths greater than 3,290 m TVDss beneath the
Mangahewa-C wellsite. The consent was issued by Taranaki Regional Council (the Council)
on 30 June 2014 and contains 17 special conditions which set
catchment. The Company holds a resource consent authorising the
discharge of treated stormwater into the Waingongoro River. This biennial report for the
period July 2013-June 2015 describes the monitoring programme implemented by the Taranaki
Regional Council (the Council) to assess the Company’s environmental performance during
the period under review, and the results and environmental effects of the Company’s
quarrying activities.
The Company holds a resource consent, which includes a total of
permits, and in implementing monitoring programmes,
the Council is recognising the comprehensive meaning of ‘effects’ inasmuch as is appropriate for each
activity. Monitoring programmes are not only based on existing permit conditions, but also on the
obligations of the RMA to assess the effects of the exercise of consents. In accordance with Section 35 of
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the RMA, the Council undertakes compliance monitoring for consents and rules in regional plans, and
maintains an
Company) operates a cleanfill and wood waste disposal site located on Cowling
Road at Hurdon, in the Huatoki catchment. The activity relates to the filling of a gully with cleanfill and
sawdust from the Taranaki Pine (previously Taranaki Sawmills) site in Bell Block. This report for the period
July 2018 to June 2019 describes the monitoring programme implemented by the Taranaki Regional Council
(the Council) to assess the Company’s environmental and consent compliance performance during the
period
(the Company) operates a petrochemical production station located on Bird Road
at Stratford, in the Patea catchment. The Waihapa Production Station processes oil and gas from numerous
associated wellsites. This report for the period July 2017 to June 2018 describes the monitoring programme
implemented by the Taranaki Regional Council (the Council) to assess the Company’s environmental and
consent compliance performance during the period under review. The report also details the results of the
describes the monitoring programme implemented by the Taranaki Regional
Council to assess the Company's environmental performance during the period under
review, and the results and effects of the Company's activities.
The Company holds one resource consent, which includes a total of fifteen special
conditions setting out the requirements that the Company must satisfy. This renewed
consent was granted in May 2004 for a period expiring in June 2015. The most recent
optional review in June 2012
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Monitoring Programme
Annual Report
2012-2013
Technical Report 2013–69
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Executive summary
The Waiwhakaiho airshed in the Fitzroy area of New Plymouth
and visual effects;
(c) ecosystems, including effects on plants, animals, or habitats, whether aquatic or
terrestrial;
(d) natural and physical resources having special significance (eg, recreational,
cultural, or aesthetic);
(e) risks to the neighbourhood or environment.
In drafting and reviewing conditions on discharge permits, and in implementing
monitoring programmes, the Taranaki Regional Council is recognising the
comprehensive meaning of `effects' in as much as is
by the
Council [dairy farm water takes in excess of the permitted 1.5 litres per second (L/s) or 50
cubic metres per day entitlement per property according to the Regional Fresh Water Plan for
Taranaki, Rule 15], but as the water abstraction is not used for irrigation purposes they are not
commented on in the main body of this report, but are commented on in Appendix II.
The 2012-2013 monitoring programme for irrigation water permits comprised three primary
components; liaison with