Bay of Plenty Regional Council
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Environment Bay of Plenty is the regional council for the Bay of Plenty region. Back in 1989, the Government took 25 organisations and turned them into the Bay of Plenty Regional Council, now called Environment Bay of Plenty. As caretakers of our land, air and water, Environment Bay of Plenty monitors the effects of human activities on our environment. We also promote the sustainable management of our natural and physical resources for present and future generations.
BAY OF PLENTY — Technology is leading the way in helping make sure the Bay of Plenty’s public transport network evolves to meet the region’s growing population.
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WAIHI — Toi Moana Bay of Plenty Regional Council and iwi collective Te Wahapū o Waihī have partnered to return 30ha of low-lying farmland to coastal wetland in an effort to improve the ecological health of Waihī Estuary.
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BAY OF PLENTY — A collective effort to develop an online mapping system shows the extent voluntary and community groups in the Western Bay of Plenty are going to in helping make the region predator free.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Up to $10,000 is available for students through the He Toka Tū Moana Scholarship.
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BAY OF PLENTY — An encouraging start is how Toi Moana Bay of Plenty Regional Council is describing the progress it is making towards reducing corporate greenhouse gas emissions during the past two years.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Two aquatic weeds, hornwort and egeria densa, have been found for the first time in Rotorua's Lake Rotomā - inside Bay of Plenty Regional Council's weed cordon.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Sustainability and economic development in the Bay of Plenty are both on the rise, but safety on the roads is still a major issue for the region.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Wednesday, 6 February 2013 5:45 p.m.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Anyone wanting to make a submission on proposed changes to Bay of Plenty Regional Council's Onsite Effluent Treatment Plan has until next Wednesday, 30 January, to make their submission to the Regional Council.
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BAY OF PLENTY — It's never too early to start thinking about sustainability - just ask three Bay of Plenty Enviroschools that have started the new year with awards recognising this.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Volunteer maritime warden Barry Benton is pretty much on duty 24/7.
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BAY OF PLENTY — An Information Sharing protocol has been developed between three of the Bay of Plenty region's biggest freight movers in an effort to increase efficiencies and productivity across the region.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Don Herdman has been spreading the word about water safety for 25 years and reckons wives and mothers are the best people to target to ensure water users know the rules.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Speeding jet skis and boats have not made a good start to the summer on Rotorua's lakes.
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BAY OF PLENTY — At this time of year bar entrances in the Eastern Bay of Plenty traditionally become shallow and Bay of Plenty Regional Council's Eastern Bay Harbour Master Brian Spake urges boaties to take more caution when crossing them.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Whitewater kayaking requires nerves of steel but Olympian Luuka Jones is the first to admit she gets nervous when she's kayaking in the presence of jet skis.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Former Deputy Prime Minister, Sir Michael Cullen is one of two new appointments to the Bay of Connections Governance Group.
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BAY OF PLENTY — The Tauranga Harbour Master has carried out a survey of the Bowentown Bar area and identified some significant changes to the shape and extent of the outer banks of the bar.
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BAY OF PLENTY — A Waikato demolition company and a Matakana Island dairy farmer were fined a total of more than $70,000 in the Tauranga District Court yesterday on pollution charges in two separate cases brought by Bay of Plenty Regional Council.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Bay of Plenty Regional Council's Tauranga Bayhopper buses carried a record number of passengers in the month of November this year.
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WAIKATO — A collision between a power boat and a jet ski in the Waikato region last Friday has highlighted the need for people to take care on the waterways this summer, says the Western Bay of Plenty harbour master, Jennifer Roberts.
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BAY OF PLENTY — The ways in which the region's volunteers can help Bay of Plenty Regional Council achieve its council outcomes are to be investigated early next year.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Five people have presented to Rotorua Hospital with symptoms of toxic shellfish poisoning with a further two unrelated cases seen at Tauranga Hospital. Each person affected had eaten shellfish collected from the coastline between Mount Maunganui and Papamoa.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Specially designed cones that warn children of spraying in orchards have proved a hit with the Te Puna community.
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TAURANGA — The Port of Tauranga is well-placed to accommodate future demand and growth according to a report released this week on the upper North Island ports.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Bay of Plenty Regional Council staff are concerned some residents may be treating Dama wallabies as pets instead of pests.
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OPOTIKI — Ōpōtiki dairy farmers Riverlock Farms Limited, and directors Ian Brown and Geoffrey Brown, have been fined a total of $74,000 plus costs on charges brought by Bay of Plenty Regional Council of discharging contaminated underpass liquid to waterways in October 2011.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Needing assistance from the Whakatane-based New Zealand Response Team 17 isn't an event anyone wants to happen, at any time.
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BAY OF PLENTY — An exclusion zone has been established around Otangiwai Point, also known as Mailbox Point, in Lake Rotomā.
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BAY OF PLENTY — This is the first article in a series about the work we undertake across our region.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Water sampling conducted by Bay of Plenty Regional Council has confirmed that the bloom of blue green algae in Lake Okaro, near Rotorua has worsened. A health warning advising against recreational use of the lake has been in place since July.
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BAY OF PLENTY — The different ways Bay of Plenty Regional Council can support and work with volunteers and the not-for-profit sector will be further investigated by staff following a report to Councillors last week.
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MT MAUNGANUI — Fifteen students have received scholarships to take part in the monitoring programme for Rena Recovery.
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BAY OF PLENTY — The different ways Bay of Plenty Regional Council can support and work with volunteers and the not-for-profit sector will be further investigated by staff following a report to Councillors last week.
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BAY OF PLENTY — A fund set up to kick-start the development of major infrastructure projects in the Bay of Plenty is likely to be oversubscribed when applications open next month.
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A campaign has been launched to improve the behaviour of jet ski users on Bay of Plenty waterways this summer.
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BAY OF PLENTY — A new lake Stakeholder Advisory Group will help develop rules and a land use incentive scheme for the Lake Rotorua catchment.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Any decision to leave the wreck of the cargo ship Rena on Otaiti (Astrolabe) Reef off the Tauranga coast would require a full resource consent process, Bay of Plenty Regional Council says.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Despite an increased workload and the grounding of the MV Rena off the Tauranga coast last October, Bay of Plenty Regional Council still delivered on its major projects, including progressing its major programmes for Rotorua Lakes and Tauranga Harbour.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Following ongoing shellfish toxin monitoring the Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning (PSP) toxin warning has been extended eastwards to include Whakatane Heads.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Bay of Plenty Regional Council has proposed an Action Plan to help improve water quality at Lake Ōkataina.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Bay of Plenty Regional Council scientists are cautiously optimistic about recent good results for water quality in Lake Rotorua.
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BAY OF PLENTY — New uses for sea lettuce, using dairy effluent to fatten fish and a new clean-up method for Rotorua's septic tanks - just some of the bright ideas Bay of Plenty Regional Council staff have come up with as they go about their day-to-day work.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Bay of Plenty Regional Council may have one extra councillor elected at next year's local body elections, due to population growth in the Tauranga constituency area.
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BAY OF PLENTY — How do you travel each day? Could you do it without jumping in the car? World Car Free Day is happening next week and Bay of Plenty Regional Council is asking people to look at how they travel, and where possible use alternatives such as cycling, walking and public transport.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Three dairy farmers were sentenced in the Tauranga District Court yesterday for the unlawful discharge of dairy effluent after separate prosecutions brought against them by Bay of Plenty Regional Council.
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OPOTIKI — Funding to improve Opotiki harbour is an important first step towards realising the region's aquaculture potential, says Bay of Connections governance group chairman John Cronin.
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BAY OF PLENTY — North Island - East Coast - Tauranga - Astrolabe Reef - Exclusion Zone 1.
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OPOTIKI — A large navigation marker has gone missing from an aquaculture farm about nine kilometres north of Opotiki/Waiotahi.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Bus fares will be increasing on Monday 3 September 2012.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Following ongoing shellfish toxin monitoring the Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning (PSP) toxin warning has been extended eastwards along the Bay of Plenty coastline.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Interest in a fund set up to support the development of infrastructure is being sought by Bay of Plenty Regional Council.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Decisions on all submissions to the Proposed Bay of Plenty Regional Policy Statement will be publically released this week.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Decisions on all submissions to the Proposed Bay of Plenty Regional Policy Statement will be publically released this week (Tuesday 14 August).
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BAY OF PLENTY — As a result of testing, people are advised to avoid collecting or eating shellfish from a large area along the Coromandel and Bay of Plenty coastline.
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ROTORUA — Rotorua home owners now have more choices to upgrade their old wood burners and open fires to cleaner heating methods under Bay of Plenty Regional Council's Hot Swap scheme.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Changes to improve how the discharge from septic tanks is managed throughout the region are the subject of public meetings being held by the Regional Council this month.
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BAY OF PLENTY — The Bay of Plenty Civil Defence Emergency Management Group is continuing to monitor volcanic activity in the region with the increase today in the White Island alert level from Level one to Level two.
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BAY OF PLENTY — The Ministry for Primary Industries and Bay of Plenty Regional Council are urging residents not to grow or share banned aquatic pest plants because they pose a huge risk to our waterways.
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BAY OF PLENTY — The Medical Officer of Health has issued a health warning for Lake Okaro near Rotorua as there is an ongoing risk of algae blooms in the lake.
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WHAKATANE — A body corporate and two individuals were today sentenced in the Whakatāne District Court for the unlawful discharge of dairy effluent after separate prosecutions brought against them by the Bay of Plenty Regional Council.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Farmers in the Rotorua catchment are experimenting to see if controlled flooding of some of their best pasture land can capture phosphorus during storms and stop it polluting Lake Rotorua.
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Bay of Plenty Regional Council and Tauranga City Council are among 10 organisations to join forces in a bid to increase freight efficiencies throughout the upper North Island.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Bay of Plenty Regional Council's Public Transport Subcommittee has received a report recommending an increase to bus fares in the region.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Bay of Plenty Regional Council's first contestable Regional Infrastructure Funding round will be held in 2012/13, following yesterday's adoption of the Council's Ten Year Plan.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Bay of Plenty Regional Council has adopted its Ten Year Plan after responding to public views and substantially cutting general rates increases, while continuing to fund the region's environmental and economic priorities.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Surfers and recreational fishermen wanting to check out the swell will need to wait a few more weeks before the Bay of Plenty Regional Council's wave buoy is back in action.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Armer Farms (N.I.) Limited was today fined $72,000 plus costs for the unlawful discharge of dairy effluent after a prosecution brought against the company by Bay of Plenty Regional Council.
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TAURANGA — Bay of Plenty Regional Council Chairman John Cronin has expressed his deepest sympathies to Tauranga City Council staff and Councillors and Mr Paterson's wife Melanie and his family on hearing of the passing of the Council's Chief Executive Officer Ken Paterson today.
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TAURANGA — What is the Ōmokoroa boatyard? The Ōmokoroa boatyard is located outside Tauranga, at 34 Harbour View Road, on the Ōmokoroa Peninsula.
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TAURANGA — With positive progress, Rena salvage operation now preparing for winter Following faster than expected progress in the recovery of containers from the MV Rena in recent weeks and possible extreme weather conditions over the winter months, planning is currently underway in preparation for the next stages of the operation.
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TAURANGA — Salvage High winds and swell out at the reef this week have caused some disruption to salvage activities, with Smit Borneo forced to remain on standby yesterday.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Water levels in Lake Rotoiti will be reduced by as much as 100mm from usual operating levels during June, as the first annual draw-down occurs.
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BAY OF PLENTY — After decades of Treaty settlement discussions, a new group overseeing the Bay of Plenty’s Rangitāiki River and its catchments has been formed.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Youth educating youth, further education opportunities and more renewable resources are some of the ideas of students from throughout the region for the future of the Bay of Plenty.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Bay of Plenty Regional Council is calling for the assistance of kiwifruit orchardists, farmers, forestry owners and the public to help prevent the spread of wild kiwifruit vines after the biggest find of the pest plants in a decade.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Students from schools throughout the Bay of Plenty will gather in Pāpāmoa to help shape our future at this year's Youth Jam.
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ROTORUA — An infestation of the aquatic pest plant hornwort has been found in Rotorua's Lake Ōkāreka.
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A 20ft yacht, Nivana, is badly damaged on the rocks of the western side of Mauāo.
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BAY OF PLENTY — We're updating the On-Site Effluent Treatment Regional Plan and we'd like to hear from you.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Bay of Plenty Regional Council is developing a new Regional Coastal Environment Plan which sets rules, policies and objectives to protect the region's coastal marine area.
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BAY OF PLENTY — The Bay of Plenty was one of the top performing regions in economic development in New Zealand in 2011, according to a report from Business and Economic Research Ltd (BERL).
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MT MAUNGANUI — A public event is being held to explain upcoming changes to stormwater management in the Bay of Plenty.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Bay of Plenty Mayors and Chair decided to proactively work together and seek to be involved in discussions on the Central Government's Better Local Government Reform.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Remember to submit your applications for Environmental Enhancement Fund projects over $5,000 and He Matapuna Akoranga a Hawea Vercoe - Hawea Vercoe Commemoration Fund projects by 4.30pm tomorrow Friday 13 April.
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TAURANGA — Prominent New Zealanders and Māori academics will be speaking at this month's Tauranga conference for Bay of Plenty Māori.
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BAY OF PLENTY — More people than ever before are travelling by bus in the Bay of Plenty.
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BAY OF PLENTY — People are being asked to have their say on the document which prioritises the region's key transport projects for the next three years.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Bay of Plenty Regional Council's Harbourmaster has issued navigational safety warnings for the Bay of Plenty following the release of containers and debris from MV Rena today.
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BAY OF PLENTY — NZTA monitors temporary route as severe weather forecast for Eastern BOP The NZ Transport Agency says it will be monitoring the temporary diversion route through the Waioeka Gorge near Gisborne as severe weather is forecasted to hit the Eastern Bay of Plenty early this week.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Recreational boaties are reminded to keep well clear of commercial fishing vessels, after two serious near-miss incidents in the eastern Bay in the past five months.
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BAY OF PLENTY — The Environment Court today approved the resource consent for the operation of the Okere Gates at Lake Rotoiti and Ohau Weir at Lake Rotorua, after a negotiated agreement was reached by several parties.
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