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Understanding the EPA's Role in the Exclusive ISSUE 33 August 2014 Pupuritia ki ngä taonga e waihotia e ngä tïpuna, me whai anö i a rätau tauira. [Cherish the gifts of your ancestors, and heed lessons learnt.] E ngä hau e whä, kua tatü nei koutou i raro i te whakaruruhau o Ranginui e tü nei, ko Papatüänuku e takoto nei, he mihi manaaki. He mihi anö ki a rätau kua rere atu ra ki te pö, rätau ki a rätau, tätau ki a tätau, nöreira tënä koutou e tau ana ki tënei kaupapa. Regulating tutin in honey – page 6 WHAT'S INSIDE 1 Understanding the EPA’s role in the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) 2 Kaupapa Körero 3 Ngä Kaihautü Korero 4 Emerging chemical contaminants: He Ngängara Kei Tua o te Pae? 5 New Mäori member for the EPA Board 5 New Ngä Kaihautü members 6 Biofouling news 6 Proposed changes for regulating tutin in honey Te Herenga members at EEZ Hui 7 Ngä Kaihautü Tikanga Taiao – Reflections 8 Toolbox and safety campaign change health and safety behaviour Understanding the EPA’s role in the 8 Workshops for Hazardous Substances applicants Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) 9 Biosecurity Bonanza 2014 by Graeme Weavers, Te Herenga member 10 Understanding the EPA’s role in the Exclusive Economic Zone On 24 and 25 June 2014, Kaupapa Kura Taiao (the EPA’s Mäori Policy and (EEZ) (continued) 10 Ngä Kaihautü Tikanga Taiao – Operations group) organised an EEZ hui for members of its Mäori National Reflections (continued) Network, Te Herenga. Held at Tapu Te Ranga Marae in Wellington, the hui topic 11 Te Herenga HSNO Survey Analysis was “Understanding the EPA’s role in the EEZ,” and the surrounding issues. 11 HSNO applications update Participants discussed future Te Herenga activities and work programmes for 11 Rauwaru; Ngä-weri, Mäori root 2014 and 2015, but the main focus of the hui was understanding the EEZ Act vegetables and marine consents. Due to work commitments, I had not attended a Te Herenga hui for 18 months, but I felt compelled to attend this hui for reasons I had yet to understand. I arrived with my usual questions, and fired up responses to what, why and how, then quickly realised that I did not understand the EEZ Act or Continued on page 10 - TE PUTARA 1 Kaupapa Körero E ngä tangata kaitiaki o te motu, tënä koutou katoa. The last few months have kept the Kaupapa Kura Taiao team very months. One change many of you will already have noticed is busy across all of our functions. We have completed our first-ever the establishment of our weekly email to Te Herenga members marine consent application under the Exclusive Economic Zone providing updates about activities, upcoming applications and and Continental Shelf (Environmental Effects) Act 2012 (EEZ Act) recent decisions. Your feedback about this new development is vital from Trans-Tasman Resources (TTR). As the first of its kind, this to make sure we are providing useful information, so let us know if application generated much media interest. It was declined by the you have any suggestions. Decision-making Committee and will be appealed by TTR. The team Since the last edition of Te Pütara there have been a number of is currently involved in the EPA’s second major marine consent changes within different committees of the EPA, including Ngä application by Chatham Rock Phosphate Limited (CRP), proposing Kaihautü, the EPA Board and the HSNO Committee, all of which to mine phosphate nodules from the Chatham Rise. Submissions have recently had Mäori appointments made. ‘Ngä Kaihautü to the application closed on 10 July 2014. The EPA received 279 Korero’ provides more information about these changes. submissions. The CRP application and copies of the submissions can be found on our website (www.epa.govt.nz). Also of note, we would like to congratulate our own staff member Manu Graham who was recently promoted to the positon of As the EEZ is still a relatively new regime, there are still plenty Principal Advisor Mäori. This is a newly created position that of learnings for us, applicants and submitters. We will no doubt reflects the vast range and amount of work required to process continue to gain experience with several marine consents expected applications within the EPA. It will allow Kaupapa Kura Taiao to over the next few months. This year’s first Te Herenga hui focussed be more involved in areas of the EPA that we previously were not. on the EPA’s role in the EEZ and was held in Wellington with an Congratulations Manu!! Sadly we will also be losing one of our staff intimate number of members. The limited number format worked members, Ayesha Solomon, who has made a huge contribution really well because we were able to have more conversation and to the work of Kaupapa Kura Taiao, Ngä Kaihautü and the EPA discussion on focussed topics. One of our participants has written generally. Ayesha has been offered a permanent position at the an article on the hui in this edition. The hui also provided an Ministry of Justice and we wish her every success in that role. By opportunity for members to look at the complete Te Herenga work the time this newsletter is published, we will have appointed a new programme that has been distributed to all members. Administrator for Kaupapa Kura Taiao. We’d also like to thank those Te Herenga members who Ngä mihi nui ki a koutou participated in our Survey Monkey on methods of consultation for HSNO applications. We received just over a 30% response, Linda Faulkner, Manahautü - which is surprisingly good. The key messages to come out of the GENERAL MANAGER M AORI POLICY & OPERATIONS survey are discussed in this edition, but be assured your feedback KAUPAPA KURA TAIAO will contribute directly to changes planned over the next few 2 ISSUE 33, AUGUST 2014 Ngä Kaihautü Korero Tuia i runga, tuia i raro, tuia i roto, tuia i waho, tuia te herenga tangata ki te whei ao, ki te aho märama. Pai märire ki te Kïngi Tuheitia, tae noa ki te Whare Kähui Ariki. Ngä mate huhua o te wähanga o hotoke, moe mai rä. Tënä tätou i rungä i ö tätou marae, i te pütake o ö tätou maunga, i te tahatika o ö tätou awa, o ö tätou moana. Tihei Mauri Ora! It was with some poignancy that we farewelled Glenice Paine as a applications declined that relate to the EEZ, hazardous substances, Ngä Kaihautü member in June. Glenice was involved with ERMA new organisms and nationally significant proposals. Although some and the EPA for 11 years as a Mäori National Network member, of these decisions are the subject of appeal, this gives me some Board of Inquiry member and as a very active member and confidence that the Decision-making Committee process has a high Tumuaki of Ngä Kaihautü. Glenice has been a friend, a colleague chance of working and we are encouraging the EPA to record and and a mentor for me and many others, providing a guiding hand report decisions that are approved AND declined. It is the nature and voice with significant ability to appreciate and articulate of these applications that there is highly unlikely to be a decision different perspectives in our mahi as kaitiaki. Glenice contributed that satisfies the requirements of all parties. Let’s hope that the some reflections in this edition of Te Pütara (page 7). As an active decisions made strike the right balance between environmental, kaitiaki and Iwi Chair, we will no doubt see Glenice in our travels. cultural, social and economic considerations. Kei te hoa, kei te wahine toa, tënei ka mihi atu. He tika kë te körero, e kore te kümara e körero mö tana reka. Other comings and goings: Board member Taria Tahana (Ngäti That said, there are some interesting comments from the Pikiao, Ngäti Makino and Tapuika) accepted a further three-year Productivity Commission regarding Regulatory Institutions and appointment to the EPA Board; Kura Denness (Te Atiawa) joins Practices and te Tiriti in regulatory design and practice. The EPA the EPA Board, replacing Anake Goodall (Ngäi Tahu), whose term and Ngä Kaihautü were used as a case study in the review. with the EPA has expired. Dr Shaun Olgilvie (Ngäti Awa, Te Arawa) (http://www.productivity.govt.nz/sites/default/files/regulatory- retired from the HSNO Committee after many years as a Mäori institutions-and-practices-final-report-ch7.pdf). National Network member, Ngä Kaihautü member and ERMA Authority member. We continually challenge ourselves on how to best make use of scarce resources. We continually consider how we as Ngä Kaihautü Ki a koutou katoa, näna i tono mä tëtahi türanga ki Ngä Kaihautü, can encourage applicants and the EPA to appropriately understand koinei kë te mihi mähaki ki a koutou. and consider Mäori perspectives in their activities, processes, We look forward to Ngaire Burley and James Whetu joining us as policies and decisions. We continually seek ideas and ways that, welcome additions to Ngä Kaihautü. More on Ngaire and James on in the trenches for kaitiaki, mana whenua and so on, things can page 5 of this edition. Ngä Kaihautü will again be looking for new work more effectively and efficiently. It is nice to pause, reflect and members later this year, so keep an eye out for that opportunity. celebrate that, although there is still more work to do, others see It is an ongoing issue for kaitiaki to be able to interact with benefits in the model that we currently use. applications in a meaningful way to ensure that Mäori perspectives See you in the trenches.
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