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    2. Digital-Culchie on

      I love the smell of the stuff but feel guilty that it’s more CO2 dense than oil or coal

    4. OrganicVlad79 on

      Sad.. go for walks in rural Kerry frequently and it’s sad to see ecosystems destroyed by turf cutting. Not to mention the destruction of a vital carbon sink

    6. ImpressiveLength1261 on

      Funny that. I live in a blue area and I’ve been using peat for years.

    8. Spursious_Caeser on

      This is a perfect example of how continuing tradition for the sake of tradition is often dog ignorant to the point of being harmful.

      Peat is one of the dirtiest and least efficient forms of heating a home. The boglands also act as a perfect C0² absorption method.

      Continuing to do this „because it’s what we’ve always done“ is a special type of selfish and willful ignorance.

    9. AUX4 on

      These are the areas which should have been prioritised for retrofitting.

      Though, the map doesn’t really indicate how many homes are per area. A lot of these areas are just bogs, with a handful of houses.

    11. Suvigirl on

      God I love the smell of a turf fire! Brings me right back to my grandparents house 😍

    12. GasMysterious3386 on

      If government were actually serious about tackle carbon emissions, they would be giving away solar panels and batteries for free.

    14. The-Replacement01 on

      Would like to see population density overlayed on this.
      Would be interesting.

    18. PBJellyChickenTunaSW on

      My favourite source of information is an image with no other context provided

    19. Zapper_jnr on

      I love to see the comparison between the damage Bord NaMona did and people who cut Turf to heat their homes.

    20. Accomplished-Low2131 on

      Live in a old rented house at the moment that is solid fuel heating only . Always feel like shit having to save turf and use that just to stay warm in winter

    22. Competitive_Sea3060 on

      Would be great if government could determine who owns the privately owned bog land and retrofit their homes in exchange for agreement that they completely leave their bogs untouched. Drones could be used to map areas frequently and if bogs are being cut despite agreement then they are forced to pay back the entire retrofit costs. Need to give people a viable alternative to this horribly inefficient and damaging but cheap fuel source.

    24. 5555555555558653 on

      I had no idea it was still that prevalent.

      Never heard of a family in Cork using peat / turf.

    29. ThePerfumedSeneschal on

      Such a shame what’s been lost with our bogs. Go to any of these areas in red in the midlands on Google maps satellite view and you’ll see patchwork raised bogs. Zoom to field level and you’ll see lines across the peatlands from mechanical harvesting. No vegetation cover, drained and cut and releasing millions of tonnes of carbon. 

      Load of the farms on the peripheries of those bogs being used for fairly low value agriculture also.  Artificially drained and grass on the surface lowering the water table and depleting the peat within. 

      Similarly can look at the mountain and lowland Atlantic blanket bogs on the west coast and make out multiple collate plantations. Again a terrible use of this land from a climate, ecological and even financial point of view if the value of our natural assets were correctly considered.

    31. SDK1000 on

      I’m not Irish so forgive my lack of knowledge, I didn’t know Ireland still burnt peat? That’s insanely bad for the environment. Peatland takes thousands of years to form, surely burn wood instead if you’re going to burn anything !!

    32. Individual_Dig_2402 on

      I don’t think thus is true. Many country people have oil central heating but use peat as their main̈ source of fuel to heat one room!

    35. BraveUnion on

      Practically all my family up in the boonies use it and the old fire heats the whole house.

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