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Localisation

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General Workshop Information

Presenters/Moderators Alan Hart

Alan Hart is a working petroleum geologist and has 30 years petroleum exploration experience with two corporations, Hunt Oil Company and Arco International Oil & Gas Company, until ten years ago when he started a petroleum consulting business in New Zealand.  Mr. Hart has worked as a petroleum geologist on projects in the U.S.A., Central and South America, Africa, Middle East, Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand.  He has lived as an expatriate in Indonesia and now in New Zealand for the past ten years.  Mr. Hart graduated from the University of Texas at Arlington with B.Sc. (1974) and M.Sc. (1979) degrees in Petroleum Geology.

Having worked as Chief Geologist and Exploration Manager with Arco for six years in Indonesia, Mr. Hart supervised large staffs of expatriate and national explorationists with over US$50 million budgets.  He was also responsible for development of the Terang/Sirasun carbonate gas fields for Arco Bali North in Indonesia.  He served three years as CEO for the independent Canadian explorer, TAG Oil Limited, is now involved in ten petroleum exploration permits in New Zealand.  Mr. Hart was recently appointed director of a Vancouver Stock Exchange-listed company, Summit Exploration Limited, and an American Stock Exchange listed company, Gondwana Energy Limited, both of which will soon be participating in exploration projects worldwide.  For the last few years, Mr. Hart has been a lecturer to civic groups, schools and business organisations on the impending petroleum crisis.

Steve Markham Manager Policy Tasman District council

Steve Markham has been a resource policy manager for local government in New Zealand for 25 years, after working as a geologist.  He has lived all around New Zealand and travelled much of the world.  He has a science degree and a degree in resource management.  Steve was active in the 1980’s for local government in the period of redefining our environmental management legislation and as a regional government policy practitioner, advised government in the design of the Resource Management Act.  For the past 17 years Steve has managed resource policy development in the wider region (Te Tau Ihu) and for most of that period, the Tasman region. This has involved the setting up of sustainable management policy across the full range of natural and physical resources that are subject to regional governance process.  He has continued to be active in working within both local and central government in New Zealand, on a broad range of resource management issues.

Martin Workman Manager Environmental Policy, Nelson City Council

Martin has an MA in geography and a B.Com in Economics. He has held his current position of Manager Environmental Policy with the Nelson City Council for the past year.  Prior to that, he has worked with The Tasman District Council, the Ministry of Fisheries, managing local Nelson fisheries, and helping the local Iwi in their fisheries management. Prior to that Martin worked with the Ministry of Environment in Wellington. He spends his spare time raising his children, and enjoying the Nelson Tasman region.

This section of the workshop will concentrate on sustainable settlement patterns and local governance, both urban and rural. Each will cover:

  • The nature of local governance and the direction that policy needs to move, both locally and nationally. They will also outline how to expedite implementation of sustainable settlements and energy patterns. 
  • The process of managing development change from identification of an initiative to implementation
  • The main barriers or hindrances (to achieving sustainability change) that they strike in their daily working lives, and the opportunities for improving this situation.

Discussion will centre on: