EEZ Hui : Introduction

Linda Faulkner

Tapu Te Ranga Marae, Wellington24 – 25 June 2014

EPA Updates

Te HerengaWorking groupDraft work plan & prioritiesA new approach

EEZ HuiContextThe regulatory regime‘building the plane as we fly it’

The EPA Hazardous Substances and New Organisms (HSNO Act)

Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ Act)

Emissions Trading (Climate Change Response Act)

ResourceManagement

(RM Act)

Ozone Layer Protection Act 1996 (OLPA)

Imports and Exports(Restrictions) Prohibitions Order (No.2)

Antarctica (Environmental

Protection) Act 1994

EPA UpdatesEPA 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 HerengaRe-established 2013

Seek the continual improvement of the value and effectiveness of Māori

engagement in EPA decision-making

Working group – develop work planDraft:

Kahui kaumātuaHui / wānangaDevelopmentApplicationsProjects

EEZ Regulatory RegimeNZ exclusive economic zone: 12-200 nautical miles offshoreExtended continental shelf: seabed & subsoil of NZ submerged landmass that extends beyond our EEZOne of the largest in the world: more than 20x the size of NZ6 Agencies with responsibilities

Who is involved & when?

Restoration

Exploration

Ministry for the Environment• Develops environmental policy • Administers legislation and regulations applying to the EEZ and territorial

waters. New Zealand Petroleum and Minerals • 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.

Roles & Responsibilities of Regulators

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.

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.

Questions

Otago activity timeline