Doing nothing is not an option10 Year Plan Oral Submission

(addendum to written submission)

Thriving togetherLong-term Plan 2015 to 2025

Karamea InsleyManaging Director, 37 Degrees South Limited

ChairmanKaitiakitanga | Caring for our Lands & Foreshore

April 17th, 2015

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Tena koe

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Crown – Maori Partnership• 1840 - Treaty of Waitangi

– Partnership between the Crown and Iwi

• 1991 - Resource Management Act– shall take into account the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi (Economic, Social,

Environmental, and Cultural well-being)

• 2002 – Local Government Act– to maintain and improve opportunities for Māori to contribute to local government

decision-making

• 2002 - Climate Change Response Act– Specific legal obligation on the Crown to talk to Iwi

• 2015 to 2025 – Long-term Plan– Gives effect to the Crown’s Treaty and legal obligations to Te Whanau a Apanui

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Intergenerational commitment to our Region

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Te Whanau a Apanui Economic Growth

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Berl 2010

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Te Whanau a Apanui Job Creation

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Berl 2010

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OUR RECOMMENDATIONS

• Water Quality and Quantity• Environmental protection• Resilience and safety• Regional Collaboration and Leadership• Economic Development

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1) Water Quality and Quantity What we need is:

1) Much stronger monitoring and enforcement of forestry companies responsible for silting up and sedimentation in our streams and waterways;

2) Much stronger monitoring and enforcement of forestry companies responsible for noxious weeds being introduced onto our lands and into our streams and waterways;

3) Investment into water reticulation and irrigation infrastructure to enable greater utilization of our Maori lands into some form of high value cropping.

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2) Environmental Protection1) Continued investment into hapu development plans,

2) Continued investment in noxious weed control and pest control directly with hapu communities and, much stronger monitoring and enforcement of forestry companies responsible for noxious weeds being introduced onto our lands (EEF program).

3) Extension of our existing Kaitiakitanga program at Omaio to create a catchment program around the Haparapara River and estuary similar to that in Ohiwa harbour.

4) Grants for low income households to install and/or upgrade to efficient wood burners for home heating;

5) Grants for low income house holds to install renewable and sustainable energy options given the failing main network supply system;

6) Grants for home insulation for low income households in Te Whanau a Apanui.

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3) Resilience and Safety1) Grants for coast marae communities to develop Hazard Management Plans and

Systems given that most of our communities are at sea-level and vulnerable to storm surges as the effects of climate change impact whanau and households more and more;

2) Investment and grants into Renewable energy systems for marae communities and households given the failing and unreliable coast electricity supply system;

3) Investment into failing and narrow coastal roads infrastructure that is that is struggling to cope with the high volume of logging trucks on the road;

4) Much stronger monitoring and enforcement of forestry companies responsible for the unacceptable accident and fatality rate in forests on our lands across the coast.

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4) Regional Collaboration and Leadership

1) Investment and grants into building up the capabilities of our marae communities, Trusts and Incorporations towards more effective governance and leadership and in turn greater utilization of our land assets and other resources;

2) Targeted infrastructure investment into Marae and community led initiatives like at Omaio that never got past Stage 1 of the $40 million New Infrastructure Grant program. Communities like ours are desperate for this kind of investment.

3) I have never heard of Invest Bay of Plenty. This illustrates how ineffective this entity has been in respect of our interests on the coast. Notwithstanding this, investment in spatial mapping plans and technologies is vital infrastructure we need on the coast.

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5) Economic Development• Invest in long term infrastructure that is targeted particularly at the coast

and eastern Bay of Plenty. This infrastructure is especially into water irrigation, electricity supply including community owned renewable energy projects, and safer roads on the coast;

• Invest in growing capabilities and capacity of our people in governance, management and science and engineering expertise, including offering education scholarships for our youth to study and train in the best institutes in New Zealand and the world;

• Facilitate the transfer of world class technologies to the coast towards lifting the productivity of our lands, marine environs, forests, rivers and other assets.

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Leadership and Planning

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• The Bay of Plenty Regional Council 2015 to 2025 10-Year Plan is an extension of and gives effect to the Crowns Treaty obligations to Iwi (as does the Local government, RMA and other law)

• Since the days of Apirana Ngata, the coast has been ignored by government policy with failing infrastructure and high unemployment

• We are long term players with available land, some of the best soils, climate and water in the country

• We call on the council to develop particular policy to invest in our community at Omaio and, the east- coast region (regional development)

• An opportunity on the coast to create hundreds of new jobs and add $10’s millions to the local and regional economies

• For the last 5 years we have been doing work at Omaio and are ready to do more in partnership with the Bay of Plenty Regional Council

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