Forestry here has 'lost its social licence' due to poor practices faciliated by Gisborne District Council's 'capitulation to the permissiveness of the regulatory regime'. Those are two main findings released today by the Panel for the Ministerial Inquiry into Land Use in Tairāwhiti and Wairoa. The report, titled Outrage to Optimism , lists nearly 50 recommendations for turning around the communities' post-flood desperate circumstances and despair into hope for a positive future. It was delivered to Environment Minister David Parker and Forestry Minister Peeni Henare yesterday.

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