Environmental
Compliance

Thank you to our 2019 speakers!

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2021 speaker details will  be available here soon
 

Conference MC

Guest Speaker

• Peter Taylor
  Canterbury Regional Council

• Michelle Sharp
  Kilmarnock

2019 Keynote Speakers

• Judge John Hassan
  Environment Judge, Environment Court
  [Wednesday 13th November, 8:45am]
   

• Antony Gough
  The Terrace Christchurch Ltd
  [Wednesday 13th November, 9:30am]
   

• Logan Williams
  The NZ Merino Company Ltd
  [Thursday 14th November, 8:30am]
   

• Hon Eugenie Sage
  Minister of Conservation, Minister for Land Information, Assoc. Minister for the Environment and Spokesperson for Christchurch Issues
  [Thursday 14th November, 9:15am]

2019 Session Speakers 

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Wednesday 13th November

• CESIG's Strategic Compliance plan
  Simon Mapp, Enviroment Southland and Steve Pearce, Auckland Council
  [10:30am]
   

• Wetland Protection & Rehabilitation - Lessons learned from a Canterbury incident
  Nathan Dougherty, Environment Canterbury
  [10:30am]
   

• RMA Compliance & Enforcement 101  
  Janet Whiteside, Auckland Council
  [10:30am]
   

• To Infinity and Beyond - Moving Contractors Beyond Compliance
  Emma Comrie-Thomson, 4Sight Consulting
  [11:00am]
   

• Avoid Curve Balls - Tree Protection 
  James Piddock, Tauranga City Council
  [11:00am]
   

• Liability Under the RMA - Vicariously Yours - The Who, What, Why and How of liability under the RMA
  Joshua Shaw, Wynn Williams & Vanessa Sugrue, Canterbury Regional Council.
  [11:30am]
   

• Kauri Dieback Disease - Do or Die - Targeted Compliance - Limiting its spread
  Jesse Hindt, Auckland Council
  [11:30am]
   

• Investigative Interviewing - Using the PEACE model for witness interviews
  Kathy Fergus, Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment
  [11:30am]
   

• Works in Waterways - Best Practice?
  Tanya Blakely, Boffa Miskell
  [12:00pm]
   

• Strategising Lower GHG Emissions - Local Government Strategies to Reduce GHG Emissions
  Victoria Edmonds
  [1:30pm]
   

• Who's Discharge is this? - Two resource consents for the same discharge? How does that work?
  Radleigh Cairns, Tauranga City Council
  [1:30pm]
   

• Improving Sentencing Outcomes - Developments in sentencing and how to achieve better results
  Jamie O'Sullivan & Andrew Britton, Luke Cunningham Clere
  [1:30pm]
   

• A Journey with Maximo - Improving compliance and reducing risk
  Olivia Johnson-Sullivan
  [1:30pm]
   

• Smoke - its a Burning Issue - Outdoor Burning Trials - measuring the  effectiveness of Best Practice burning methods
  Jane Stuart, Tasman District Council
  [1:30pm]
   

• Drone Usage in CME - An overview of the issues
  Andrew Britton & Jamie O'Sullivan, Luke Cunningham Clere
  [1:30pm]
   

• Compliance Case Study: OWTS  
  Jenny Zhang, Auckland Council
  [2:30pm]
   

• What's Stinking in Timaru?
  Hannah Duncum, Environment Canterbury
  [2:30pm]
   

• Subdivision by Stealth 
  Nathan Speir & Laura Bielby, Rice Speir
  [2:30pm]
   

• When is a River Bed Not a River Bed?  
  Richard Purdon, Environment Canterbury
  [3:00pm]
   

• A Regulatory Approach - A regulatory approach to sulphur dioxide exceedances in a mixed use industrial area
  David Ede, Bay of Plenty Regional Council
  [3:00pm]
   

• What Does That Card You Carry Really Mean 
  Dennis Bush-King, Tasman District Council
  [3:00pm]
  
   

Thursday 14th November
 

• Forestry NES-PF - 90 minute panel
  [10:30am]
   

  • Forestry: It's not all bad!
    Sarah Helleur - Environment Canterbury
     

  • Compliance Monitoring for the NES-PF
    Jared Crowley - Horizons Regional Council 
     

  • NES - PF one year on
    Zivana Pauling - Northland Regional Council
    
     

• A Different Approach to Small Sites - Maybe a revolution not evolution!
  Graham Jones, Auckland Council
  [10:30am]
   

• Regional Significant Consent Process
  Jana Hayes, Environment Canterbury
  [10:30am]
   

• Central Governments Role in CME - MfE and the EPA talk about their compliance projects and working with our local government partners
  Jos Fryer, Ministry for the Environment
  [11:00am]
   

• Dairy Farming - 90 minute panel
  [2:00pm]
   

  • Farming - Is the Grass really Greener?
    Alex Erceg - Environment Southland 
     

  • Monitoring High Risk Dairy Farms
    Stuart Stone - Waikato Regional Council 
     

  • Grading Farm Monitoring Inspections
    Rachael Anderson - Northland Regional Council
    
     

• Water Water Everywhere - And how to manage data
  Peter Taylor, Environment Canterbury
  [2:00pm]
   

• Fish Screening in Canterbury - The Magnificent Seven: Incorporating good practice guidelines with the compliance assessment process
  Trinity White, Environment Canterbury
  [2:30pm]
   

• Automated Satellite Monitoring - Automated generation of satellite-derived information is a powerful tool for compliance monitoring and incident detection, however, it's not without its challenges
  Robert Schafer, Xerra Earth Observation Institute
  [3:00pm]
   

• RMA Enforcement 201 
  Janet Whiteside, Auckland Council
  [2:00pm]