from Councillor D L Lean for lateness was received and
sustained.
Notification of Annual Plan and rates to be discussed under general business.
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1. Confirmation of Minutes – 25 February 2020
Resolves
That the Taranaki Regional Council:
takes as read and confirms the minutes and resolutions of the Ordinary Meeting
of the Taranaki Regional Council held in the Taranaki Regional Council chambers,
47 Cloten Road, Stratford, on Tuesday 25 …
2018. It is proposed to
set the rates for 2018/2019 at the same Ordinary Meeting.
Decision-making considerations
Part 6 (Planning, decision-making and accountability) of the Local Government Act 2002 has
been considered and documented in the preparation of this agenda item. The
recommendations made in this item comply with the decision-making obligations of the Act.
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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 STDC, this report also
assigns them a rating for their environmental and administrative performance during the period under
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inability to provide certainty over All Blacks fixtures in the regions and the cost
to bring such fixtures to Taranaki compared to the benefits of hosting other sporting fixtures (i.e.
national secondary schools tournament week)
The impact of a substantial rates increase on our aging population and on our District
to increase rates for priority
install and operate a recording device for
water abstraction rates and to provide the records to the Council.
Conditions 2, 3 and 4 address abstraction during low flow conditions.
Condition 5 sets out review provisions.
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Water permit 5847-1 allows the Company to take and use up to 19,440 cubic
metres/day [225 litres/second averaged over 15 minutes] of water from a water
intake structure in the Patea River for cooling and power station purposes. This
permit was
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1.1.5. 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
administrative performance.
Environmental performance is concerned with actual or likely effects on the receiving environment from the
activities during the monitoring year. Administrative
no person may take, use, dam or divert any
water, unless the activity is expressly allowed for by resource consent or a rule in a
regional plan, or it falls within some particular categories set out in Section 14.
The Council determined that the application to take groundwater fell within Rule 49
of the Regional Freshwater Plan for Taranaki (RFWP) as the rate and daily volume of
the groundwater abstraction may have exceeded that of the permitted activity (Rule
48). Rule 49 provides for
Policy & Planning Committee agenda July 2018
composition of the produced fluid slowly changing
from that of primarily fracturing fluid to primarily in situ formation fluid (e.g.,
hydrocarbons and some salty water). How long it takes to essentially recover the
fracture fluids depends on several factors, primarily the overall production flow rate
(higher is better), the producing gas/fluid ratio, and nature of the geologic materials.
The volume of fracture fluid that is recovered in initial return flow, and then
subsequently over time in the
analyses of ‘faecal indicator bacteria
rate of discharge from the Waitara River’ against ‘coastal faecal
indicator bacteria counts’ for 2012-2013 summer 14
Table 5 Summary of performance for Consent 3397-2 to discharge
up to 11,950 m3/day of treated municipal wastes generated
in Waitara Township via a marine outfall 23
Table 6 Summary of consent 3399-2 to discharge treated wastewater
and stormwater from the Waitara Valley methanol plant
into the Tasman Sea via the Waitara marine outfall