1. Tapu Te Ranga Marae, Wellington 24 – 25 June 2014
EEZ Hui : Introduction
Tapu Te Ranga Marae, Wellington
24 – 25 June 2014
Last month Paul presented EPA Strategy
Linda Faulkner

2. 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’

3. The EPA Hazardous Substances and New Organisms (HSNO Act)
Resource Management (RM Act)
Imports and Exports (Restrictions)
Prohibitions Order (No.2)
Antarctica (Environmental Protection) Act 1994
Ozone Layer Protection
Act 1996 (OLPA)
Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ Act)
Emissions Trading (Climate Change Response Act)

4. 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

5. Te Herenga Re-established 2013 Working group – develop work plan
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

6. EEZ Regulatory Regime
NZ exclusive economic zone: 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

7. Who is involved & when?

8. Roles & Responsibilities of Regulators
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
Allocates areas for exploration through Block Offer process
Processes and monitors prospecting, exploration and mining permits.
Assesses operators’ technical and financial capability, etc.
Restoration
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.
Rob Forlong (CEO, EPA) will speak to this slide.
Because all petroleum activities outside of Taranaki are exploration related, this slide provides more detail around the regulatory regime that sits around this process and clarifies which agencies are responsible for what.
Bullet points have been provided by each respective agencies as a guide to be talked to.
Additional supporting information provided by agencies:
Ministry for the Environment (to be presented alongside EPA role)
- MfE is the environmental policy agency that provides advice to the Minister for the Environment.
- The Ministry is responsible for developing the EEZ laws and regulations the EPA operates under.
- This work is ongoing and happens in stages.
- Before the EEZ Act there was nothing that fully assessed environmental effects in the EEZ.
WorkSafe New Zealand
- Inspectors have the power to issue improvement, prohibition and infringement notices and, if necessary, prosecute in the event of non-compliance.

9. Questions

10. Otago activity timeline
New Zealand Oil & Gas
Seismic surveying in late 2014 and late 2015
Exploration drilling by late 2016*
Anadarko
Exploration drilling in 2015*
Shell
Exploration drilling by December 2016*
Woodside
seismic surveying by late 2014 and early 2015
TAG Oil
Seismic surveying by mid 2014
Exploration drilling by mid 2015*
Greymouth were awarded this permit in July This permit requires them to complete the following:
Commit or surrender by late 2014
Seismic surveying by mid 2015
Commit or surrender by mid 2016
Complete exploration drilling by mid 2017.
*please note these activities are subject to the operator committing to more activity or surrendering their permit.