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Longford South Leitrim NPWS land flooding

  • 24-04-2014 1:09pm
    #1
    Conmaicne Mara
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    Just reading about this in the Journal, anyone here affected by it?


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    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,546 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Bit of a raw deal there


  • #3
    Conmaicne Mara
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    Ever so slightly, NPWS having too much power. Was talking to NZ farmers lately, they can spray and reseed hills from the air. Try that on SAC land......................................


  • #4
    Reggie.
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    Conmaicne Mara wrote: »
    Ever so slightly, NPWS having too much power. Was talking to NZ farmers lately, they can spray and reseed hills from the air. Try that on SAC land......................................

    Yeah want to flood land to bring the bogs back to life, sure why stop there


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    Capercaille
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    Reggie. wrote: »
    Yeah want to flood land to bring the bogs back to life, sure why stop there
    Rewetting bogs is the term and it doesn't lead to flooding of agricultural land.


  • #6
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,546 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Well apparently this one will as they are gonna block all drains


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    Capercaille
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    Conmaicne Mara wrote: »
    Ever so slightly, NPWS having too much power. Was talking to NZ farmers lately, they can spray and reseed hills from the air. Try that on SAC land......................................
    SAC's are there to protect the remnants of vital wildlife habitat.


  • #8
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,546 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Let's not turn this into a sac fight fest. The op was just wondering if anyone was gonna be affected by the flooding in the area mentioned


  • #9
    Conmaicne Mara
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    Capercaille wrote: »
    SAC's are there to protect the remnants of vital wildlife habitat.

    NPWS representative at the Hill Farming forum in Tuam in 2013 admitted to the crowd that these designations don't work. Barry something or other was his name.


  • #10
    Capercaille
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    Conmaicne Mara wrote: »
    NPWS representative at the Hill Farming forum in Tuam in 2013 admitted to the crowd that these designations don't work. Barry something or other was his name.
    They don't work for example in situations like the raised bogs SAC's. People are breaking the law and destroying the bogs with industrial turf extraction like in Clonmoylan SAC. The authorities lack the will/courage to stop them.


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    Conmaicne Mara
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    Capercaille wrote: »
    They don't work for example in situations like the raised bogs SAC's. People are breaking the law are destroying the bogs with industrial turf extraction like in Clonmoylan SAC. The authorities lack the will/courage to stop them.

    Or the common sense to know the difference.

    Anyway, I take it no one here is affected....


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