EEZ Hui : Introduction
Tapu Te Ranga Marae, Wellington
24 – 25 June 2014
Linda Faulkner
EPA Updates
Te Herenga
Working group
Draft work plan & priorities
A new approach
EEZ Hui
Context
The regulatory regime
‘building the plane as we fly it’
The EPA
Exclusive Economic Zone
(EEZ Act)
Resource
Management
(RM Act)
Ozone Layer Protection
Act 1996 (OLPA)
Emissions Trading
(Climate Change Response Act)
EPA Updates
EPA 3 Years Old – 1 July 2014
New faces:
Kaupapa Kura Taiao – ‘bigger, better, stronger’
Ngā Kaihautū Tikanga Taiao – ‘reshaping for new approaches’
EPA Board – ‘stepping in to the decision-making space’
EPA Strategy / He Whetū Mārama
Functions still coming and going
Te Herenga
Re-established 2013
Seek the continual improvement of the value and effectiveness of Māori
engagement in EPA decision-making
Working group – develop work plan
Draft:
Kahui kaumātua
Hui / wānanga
Development
Applications
Projects
EEZ Regulatory Regime
NZ exclusive economic zone: 12-200 nautical
miles offshore
Extended continental shelf: seabed & subsoil of
NZ submerged landmass that extends beyond
our EEZ
One of the largest in the world: more than 20x
the size of NZ
6 Agencies with responsibilities
Who is involved & when?
Exploration
Roles & Responsibilities of Regulators
Ministry for the Environment
• Develops environmental policy
• Administers legislation and regulations applying to the EEZ and territorial waters.
New Zealand Petroleum and Minerals
Restoration
• Allocates areas for exploration through Block Offer process
• Processes and monitors prospecting, exploration and mining permits.
• Assesses operators’ technical and financial capability, etc.
Department of Conservation
• Administers guidelines for minimising disturbance to marine mammals from
seismic survey.
WorkSafe New Zealand
• Administers the rules to make sure the oil ‘stays in the pipe’ and the risk of a well
failure is as low as reasonably practical.
Maritime New Zealand
• Ensures operators can stem the flow of oil in the unlikely event of a well blowout.
• Coordination of any national-level oil spill responses.
Environmental Protection Authority
• Manages the effects of restricted activities on the environment in the EEZ (12 to
200 nautical miles offshore).
• Considers applications for marine consents, monitors compliance and carries out
enforcement.
Questions
Otago activity timeline