foams February 2019
A University of Canterbury toxicology study has found minimal risk of PFOS-linked cancer for Māori eating eel fished from the Oaonui Stream in Taranaki. Follow the link for details: Study: Minimal risk for Māori consuming eel (University of Canterbury website) October 2018
The Taranaki Regional Council has found eels in the Oaonui stream and the much shorter Ngapirau Stream, with elevated levels of chemicals associated with firefighting foam – the only finding of note in a
of the Policy and Planning
Committee meeting held in the Taranaki Regional Council Chambers on Tuesday 24
November 2020 at 10.34am
b) notes the recommendations therein were adopted by the Taranaki Regional Council on
Tuesday 15 December 2020.
Appendices/Attachments
Document 2646148: Minutes Policy and Planning Committee meeting – 24 November 2020
Policy and Planning Committee - Confirmation of Minutes
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Date 24 November 2020, 10.34am
Venue: Taranaki
the Council to take
action on any environmental matter even if not explicitly addressed within a regional plan.
The analysis shows that the Council’s monitoring, liaison, and if needs be enforcement of
consents is very effective, achieving extremely high levels of compliance and low levels of
complaint. The average annual rate of non-compliance is barely more than 2%, or 8 events
per year. A very small number of consented sites are proving problematic; the Council
applies the full suite
Planning members are Emily Bailey, John Hooker and Mitchell Ritai. They were all formally welcomed to their new roles with a pōwhiri earlier this month. The ABC of better biodiversityStronger and more coordinated management is required to halt biodiversity decline in New Zealand, and regional councils are well placed to play a leading role, the Policy and Planning Committee was told. A new 96-page thinkpiece, ‘Addressing New Zealand’s Biodiversity Challenge’ suggests five changes that regional councils
Items of interest from today's meetings of the Council's two key Committees, Consents & Regulatory, and Policy & Planning: The Consents & Regulatory Committee and Policy & Planning Committee generally meet every six weeks, on the same day. Each of the Committees is made up of Councillors and external members. Meetings calendar Committee memberships Region keeps good eye on dairying – reportAn independent report by an environmental advocacy group has ranked the Council highly for the way it
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Domestic
Taranaki Regional Council and Dialog Fitzroy have joined forces to launch a bus service for workers travelling between some of the region’s biggest industrial sites. From Monday two new Your Connector coaches will transport Dialog Fitzroy and other industry staff from Bell Block to Kapuni or Fonterra’s Whareroa site each weekday morning, stopping in New Plymouth and other towns along the way. They will return again in the late afternoon. Dialog Fitzroy is financially supporting the service, so