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2025-06-15 09:00:16

67,000 homes in Ireland still use peat for heating. However, Bord Na Mona stopped extracting peat last year and closed its last peat power station. Now restoring peatlands which in a dried out, denatured state are carbon emitters. Big wind farms now on former extraction sites too. A great deal of historical damage has been done.
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On Ireland’s peat bogs: climate action clashes with tradition – in pictures
Bord na Móna, which was once a peat extraction company, has now committed to one of the largest peatland restoration projects ever undertaken. But many households still continue to cut turf, relying on it for heating