Why it floods wood on New Zealand’s East Coast | 1News' John Campbell
We drove in the long way - via State Highway 35, through Te Araroa, Ruatoria, Tokomaru Bay and Tolaga Bay.
Everywhere we went, there was wood.
It's called slash - the waste wood left behind by the forestry industry after pine trees have been harvested.
In rivers. On farms. On the coastline. Piled up outside people's homes. Everywhere.
In total, we spent 19 days in the region, talking to people, filming, covering the damage of two cyclones for 1 News, and observing the impacts of this debris. The more we saw, the more damage we realised it was doing.
People are exhausted by it.
It’s a big and complex issue, not only in Gisborne.
Watch 'Slash', the full 1News investigative documentary here: https://www.1news.co.nz/2023/03/05/jo...
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00:00 Introduction
00:54 Mike Parker Farms
02:27 SH35, South of Tokomaru Bay
04:36 Years of broken promises
06:20 We've all got to take some responsibility
08:07 Tolaga Bay Public Meeting
09:39 Cyclone Bola
10:54 The Forestry Industry
13:05 Prosecutions
13:37 Slash Damage
14:51 "Why is there so much slash there?"
16:15 Forestry Minister Stuart Nash
17:49 What happens now?