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Depletion of Irish bogs?

  • 22-12-2006 10:42am
    #1
    silverharp
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    It’s a question really, haven’t read anything on it before but was wondering have the practices improved recently or is it same old, same old. I have 2 questions, 1. does it increase flooding risk as I guess the bogs act like a big sponge and if rainfall patterns change, where there maybe more flash floods then cutting away the bogs may not be so clever
    A second question is on the energy side, I came across a comment somewhere that said that growing bio fuel crops on the bogs would supply more output to the power stations than burning the peat directly, is there any truth in this?

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  • #2
    Mailman
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    If there was going to be a flooding risk we would have seen it over the last 100 years with all the drainage work that has been done to agricultural land throughout Ireland.
    This country isn't the same as it was back in the 1600s for example where you only had three passes through bog out of the pale to get in to the rest of the country and before deforestation started to make an impact.


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