Peat Briquette RIP

Montage of Feck · 15-01-2021 5:42pm #1

The iconic BNM peat Briquette is to be no more from 2024. Such a peaty.

o1s1n · 15-01-2021 5:43pm

For Pete's sake

completedit · 15-01-2021 5:44pm

No way! Immediately brings me back to memories of Sunday nights; undone homework, the heat of the fire and the smell of ambrosia Creamed Rice. Over time those Sunday nights began to peter out, nonetheless, I'lll never briquette those days

is_that_so · 15-01-2021 5:45pm

So Pete Briquette is alive and well!

L1011 · 15-01-2021 5:48pm

is_that_so wrote: »

So Pete Briquette is alive and well!

https://imgur.com/gallery/5tv8avo/new

The fridge magnet I had as a kid fell apart

Ubbquittious · 15-01-2021 5:48pm

I will miss them. A pity they wont keep them around. Everything is going in the direction of dull boring and expensive heat pumps with smart controls that spy on you.

Bobblehats · 15-01-2021 5:49pm

The Briquette Bardot of our generation

rip.

completedit · 15-01-2021 5:51pm

Ubbquittious wrote: »

I will miss them. A pity they wont keep them around. Everything is going in the direction of dull boring and expensive heat pumps with smart controls that spy on you.

I honestly read pity as peaty.

piplip87 · 15-01-2021 5:52pm

Jaysus for a second there I thought you where talking about the Rats band member.

Real Donald Trump · 15-01-2021 5:52pm

I'll miss auld Peat

theguzman · 15-01-2021 5:54pm

An entire industry destroyed and closed down by the far-Left Green party, the same as our Sugar industry destroyed under German demands, our sugar now comes from Germany using sugar cane grown on destroyed Amazon rainforest. But jeez lets all put in heatpumps and pay €2.5k a year in electricity coming at the long end of a gas pipeline from Russia.

15-01-2021 5:56pm

Yeah, like a few briquettes are going to bring on the end of the world..

Sinister, really..

josip · 15-01-2021 6:00pm

And I popped in to AH looking for some mental relief from some of the Covid thread posts

Del2005 · 15-01-2021 6:00pm

theguzman wrote: »

An entire industry destroyed and closed down by the far-Left Green party, the same as our Sugar industry destroyed under German demands, our sugar now comes from Germany using sugar cane grown on destroyed Amazon rainforest. But jeez lets all put in heatpumps and pay €2.5k a year in electricity coming at the long end of a gas pipeline from Russia.

After the amber alerts from the electricity network last week we don't even have enough capacity from gas because its all renewable now. But digging the least efficient fossil fuel out of the ground isn't answer either.

theguzman · 15-01-2021 6:02pm

The midlands around Longford, Westmeath and Offaly are the poorest parts of Ireland and I am talking serious poverty here, BnM provided good paying work for generations there, bogs aren't worth tuppence, big holes of swamp which are not productive or useful. The Green party have condemned the midlands to an even worse future.

If everyone on the island of Ireland collectively committed suicide tomorrow morning it would have absolutely zero impact on the global weather! Look up a globe we are at 53 deg latitude and the weather here will nearly always be terrible.

Your Face · 15-01-2021 6:02pm

I'll miss them - they were handy.

Hopefully BNM will carry through on the planned restoration of the peat-lands after harvesting has ceased

theguzman · 15-01-2021 6:04pm

Your Face wrote: »

I'll miss them - they were handy.

Hopefully BNM will carry through on the planned restoration of the peat-lands after harvesting has ceased

Sitka Spruce plantations an even worse blight on nature.

Cheensbo · 15-01-2021 6:05pm

RIP lad

https://imgur.com/gallery/5tv8avo/new

colm_mcm · 15-01-2021 6:06pm

Good riddance. BNM are responsible for fleecing the peat lands, and using any sort of solid fuel is not environmentally friendly.

Aongus Von Bismarck · 15-01-2021 6:25pm

An excellent idea, and one that probably should have happened a few years ago. I know many people in Ireland still use them, but the destruction of the Irish peat lands for low quality fuel is a relic of a different era. There should also be a ban on households harvesting turf.

Dempo1 · 15-01-2021 6:26pm

Have they not announced production will continue until 2024?

Cody montana · 15-01-2021 6:27pm

Great news for our bogs.

emeldc · 15-01-2021 6:32pm

I heard this about the briquettes on the radio earlier and it reminded of when I was a school going teenager in the mid 70's when life was much simpler. No central heating, no double glazing, just an open fire in the sitting room. We were fcukin' freezin' most of the time! I had a well paid Saturday job as a settler in a betting office that paid £16 for the day. As cash was tight at home I offered to give my mother £4 every saturday. She wouldn't take the money but asked if I would buy 4 bales of briquettes instead. I think they were less than £1 each. I was happy with that and continued to buy them even throughout the summer months so we were always well stocked up for the winter. Those were the days! Sorry for bangin' on, it's just a nice memory for me.

_Brian · 15-01-2021 6:38pm

Everything has its day and the day of peat extraction has gone.

We’ve absolutely destroyed a vast natural resource. Something like 80% is beyond returning to its former state.

With work it should again start storing carbon and storing water that it’s supposed to rather than flooding happening.

Aongus Von Bismarck · 15-01-2021 6:39pm

theguzman wrote: »

An entire industry destroyed and closed down by the far-Left Green party, the same as our Sugar industry destroyed under German demands, our sugar now comes from Germany using sugar cane grown on destroyed Amazon rainforest. But jeez lets all put in heatpumps and pay €2.5k a year in electricity coming at the long end of a gas pipeline from Russia.

Ireland's Climate Action Plan which sounded the death knell for the peat harvesting industry was an initiative of the last FG Government. Richard Bruton I believe.

Still, it was a misguided attempt to get a dig in at the Green Party. Always worth a few thanks.

screamer · 15-01-2021 6:43pm

We’ll be left freezing our butts off yet, ban solid fuels and we don’t have enough electricity as it is, so see how well your heat pumps work in power cuts. My problem is not with progress, it’s the fact that there’s nothing to progress to, so we’re just putting ourselves in a precarious situation. Mad stuff really these stupid policies on the dankest Little Rock of an island we call Ireland.
The blueshirts, ironically fitting cause we’ll all be a nice shade of it with the cold.

saabsaab · 15-01-2021 6:46pm

I'll miss them really they gave a nice flame burned well but I won't get too fired up about it like some. Hope new jobs are made in those areas affected, solar farms, carbon capture etc etc.

Mules · 15-01-2021 6:48pm

screamer wrote: »

The blueshirts, ironically fitting cause we’ll all be a nice shade of it with the cold.

:D

.anon. · 15-01-2021 6:51pm

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

Still, it was a misguided attempt to get a dig in at the Green Party. Always worth a few thanks.

The 'far-left' Green Party, no less. As misguided as two short planks.

beerguts · 15-01-2021 6:52pm

screamer wrote: »

We’ll be left freezing our butts off yet, ban solid fuels and we don’t have enough electricity as it is, so see how well your heat pumps work in power cuts. My problem is not with progress, it’s the fact that there’s nothing to progress to, so we’re just putting ourselves in a precarious situation. Mad stuff really these stupid policies on the dankest Little Rock of an island we call Ireland.
The blueshirts, ironically fitting cause we’ll all be a nice shade of it with the cold.

100% correct sir. Even though it isn't common here in Ireland we can get depressions without any substantial wind for weeks at a time. I would be afraid that we could have our grid collapse from this and if it goes down like that it can be very difficult to get it back and running quickly when conditions improve. Bring back coal or let's start planning for Nuclear.

colm_mcm · 15-01-2021 6:55pm

beerguts wrote: »

Stick a barbed wire stick up your hole. Without BnM peat harvesting for fuel we wouldn't have had the capability of rolling out the electricity network in the 50s and 60s. Little revisionist ****s like you haven't a clue how important harvesting the peatlands was.
Look at the skill sets they helped create in mechanical and engineering works. It is fair to say that the agri equipment manufacturing wouldn't have got off the ground without BnM and its trades.
So you and other little know it all **** stains can **** up. And choke on your mechanically harvested avocado that was air freighted in.

I think you’ll find they weren’t running the lower stations on briquettes and that the rest of the country has exited the 50s a long time ago.

Peat Briquette RIP

Comments