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 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
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 GPL’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.
report.
1.3.2 Water abstraction permit (groundwater)
Section 14 of the Act stipulates that 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
rate and daily volume of
the groundwater abstraction might exceed that of the permitted activity (Rule 48).
Rule 49 provides for groundwater abstraction as a controlled activity, subject to two
conditions:
• The abstraction shall cause not more than a 10% lowering of static water-level by
interference with any adjacent bore;
• The abstraction shall not cause the intrusion of saltwater into any fresh water aquifer.
L & M Energy holds water permit 9361-1 to take groundwater that may
Under the NPS-FM, water use is
managed by setting environmental
flows and levels, taking into account
any changes that are likely to occur as
a result of climate change. Limits can
then be set on the rate and amount
of water taken, and where and when
that water can be abstracted.
Monitoring of water use ensures that
people comply with the relevant rules
and regulations.
The Council’s current Regional
Freshwater Plan requires that 66% of
the mean annual low flow (MALF) be
retained as
offensive to Taranaki Iwi, the
proposed activities include discharges to rivers and the coastal marine area. These discharges
represent a continuation of the existing discharge regime, which are to be considered to be
adequately performing with a rating of “good”. This is not sufficient in Taranaki Iwi’s view.
14. Based on the background, policies, values and potential effects set out in this submission, Taranaki
Iwi oppose the scheme in principle but support the
a way
that provides for other freshwater values, such as
ecosystem health.
Under the NPS-FM, water use is managed by
setting environmental flows and levels, taking
into account any changes that are likely to occur
as a result of climate change. Limits can then be
set on the rate and amount of water taken, and
where and when that water can be abstracted.
Monitoring of water use ensures that people
comply with the relevant rules and regulations.
The
who might use water for crop irrigation and for municipal water supply to
enable them to comply with any consent limits. It is also important for ensuring that water allocated for use
is done so in a way that provides for other freshwater values, such as ecosystem health.
Under the NPS-FM, water use is managed by setting environmental flows and levels, taking into account
any changes that are likely to occur as a result of climate change. Limits can then be set on the rate and
supplemented by additional reporting as
required. This will enable councillors to raise any matters of concern.
20. The Council can revoke the delegation at any time or when the Covid-19 has clearly
passed.
21. For everyone's information the powers that cannot be delegated are:
the power to make a rate
the power to make a bylaw
the power to borrow money, or purchase or dispose of assets, other than in
accordance with the long-term plan
the power to adopt a long-term …
freshwater quality in these other places, but their
issues are not the same as those in Taranaki.
Using the industry-standard nutrient budgeting
model ‘Overseer’ to impose nutrient caps could
impose very high costs on the dairy industry in
Taranaki, to the detriment of the regional and
national economies. And the clear environmental
benefits would be uncertain and at present
unknowable. The inaccuracy rate for Overseer in
Taranaki is significantly higher than