extent of compliance by the consent holders,
this report also assigns a rating as to each Company’s environmental and administrative performance during
the period under review. The rating categories are high, good, improvement required and poor for both
environmental and administrative performance. The interpretations for these ratings are found in
Appendix II.
For reference, in the 2021-2022 year, consent holders were found to achieve a high level of environmental
performance and
enables the 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
of environmental and administrative performance 1.1.4
Besides discussing the various details of the performance and extent of compliance by
the consent holder/s during the period under review, this report also assigns a rating
as to each Company’s environmental and administrative performance.
Environmental performance is concerned with actual or likely effects on the receiving
environment from the activities during the monitoring year. Administrative
performance is concerned with the
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
Taranaki during the
year involving a lessee and a stevedoring company. One of which involved a minor hydraulic oil spill, and
the other involved a minor molasses spill. Neither incident resulted in adverse environmental effects nor
further enforcement action.
During the year, Downer, Technix, Liquigas and Methanex obtained a high rating for environmental and
high rating for administrative performance and compliance with the resource consents. Port Taranaki’s
environmental performance and
and New Zealand Oil Services Ltd. Water samples were collected for
physicochemical analysis on selected inspections. Consent data was also supplied to the Council for review.
During the year, Port Taranaki Ltd, Downer New Zealand Ltd, and Technix Taranaki Terminal Ltd obtained a
good rating for environmental and high rating for administrative performance and compliance with the
resource consents. There was one non-compliant discharge recorded during the year, however, the cause
for the
tau value was used to assess whether the trend was
positive or negative and the significance of the trend was determined using the p value
(p < 0.05 = significant).
When multiple correlations are undertaken, there is a chance that some will be found
to be significant purely by chance. In order to deal with this potential problem, the
Benjamini-Hochberg False Discovery Rate (FDR) method was applied to the results of
the Mann-Kendall test. Further justification for this statistical approach
Discovery Rate (FDR) method was applied to the results of
the Man-Kendall test. Further justification for this statistical approach can be found in
Stark and Fowles (2006).
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Figure 1 SEM beach bathing bacteriological survey sites
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4. Results
From 15 November 2011 to 10 April 2012 a total of 13 samples were collected at each
site for the purpose of state of the environment monitoring (SEM). Whenever possible,
no SEM sampling was
resource management, and, ultimately,
through the refinement of methods, and responsible resource utilisation, to move
closer to achieving sustainable development of the region’s resources.
1.1.4 Evaluation of environmental performance
Besides discussing the various details of the performance and extent of compliance
by the consent holder/s during the period under review, this report also assigns a
rating as to each Company’s environmental and administrative performance.
Environmental
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 consent holder/s during the period under review, this report also assigns a rating
as to each Company’s environmental and