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Irish Peatland Conservation Council - Fen Campaign
Intensive industrial exploitation began in the nineteenth century. A moss peat factory opened at Ummeras, Co. Kildare and peat briquette factories were set up in Kilberry and Derrylea, ... Board, set up 10 peat production works. These delivered machine-cut turf and milled peat to electricity-generating power stations, milled peat to briquette factories and moss peat to horticulturalists. Exploring ...
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IPCC Bogs & Fens of Ireland Conservation Plan 2005 - Campaign Action
Kyoto Convention on Climate Change. 3.14.4 A detailed rehabilitation and after use plan must be drawn up for each site currently in peat production. 3.14.5 In tandem with proposals for new power stations, detailed rehabilitation and after use plan should be drawn up for sites supplying peat ...
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Cutover & Cutaway Bogs -
Peat Machine Vertical Removal Hopper Machine Vertical Removal Sod Peat Machine Vertical Removal Milled Peat Machine Horizontal Removal Bog Type Cutover Bog Cutover Bog Cutover Bog Cutover Bog Cutover Bog Peat Production ...
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Cutover & Cutaway Bogs -
It consists of a series of peat fields, 15m wide, with intervening drains. This improves runoff and drainage. Eleven of these parallel fields forms a production unit, five working fields on each side of one containing a central stockpile. The peat harvesting cycle begins with milling, or breaking ...
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Freshwater Website: Informational Resources and Services (Glossary)
Shallow, murky bodies of water that have excessive concentrations of plant nutrients causing excessive algal production. eutrophication - The natural process by which lakes and ponds become enriched with dissolved nutrients, ... 0567 liquid quarts. M marsh - A type of wetland that does not accumulate appreciable peat deposits and is dominated by herbaceous vegetation. Marshes may be either fresh water ...
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Restoration Round-up (Do or Die)
Apples, cherries, pears, plums, cobnuts, greengage, mulberry, damsons ... : 160 hectares (ha) on ex-arable land at Lakenheath Fen (Suffolk), 54 ha on old peat workings at Ham Wall (Somerset), 100 ha at Malltraeth Marsh (Anglesey) and 20 ha at ...
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PISCES - Florida Everglades
Back to Index O octocorals - coral type that includes sea ... , capable of causing disease. peat – partially decayed plant matter formed on the surface of water-logged soils, used as a fertilizer, fuel, or in the production of charcoal. periphyton – the ...
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ENDS Europe DAILY | Europe's Environmental News Service
Dimas warns Ireland over peat burning Environment commissioner says Dublin must beef up conservation to reverse "alarming" conservation ... states begin debate on greener product policy Draft resolution welcomes European commission's sustainable production and consumption package 30 JULY 2008 Road transport in the spotlight over air ...
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Friends of the Earth: Campaigners
UK has been officially described as catastrophic. Lowland raised bog SSSIs threatened by commercial peat extraction April 1998 With our peatlands still being mined to boost the profits ... assessment of the expected effectiveness of applying sustainability criteria to agrofuel and animal feedstock production in the Mercosur region. Executive Summary - Losing Ground: The human rights impacts of oil ...
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Friends of the Earth: General readers
Paper (APP) and the Indonesian pulp and paper industry. US Corporation Still Taking the Peat (PDF† format - 87K) August 2001 There are clear indications that the US based Scotts ... An assessment of the expected effectiveness of applying sustainability criteria to agrofuel and animal feedstock production in the Mercosur region. Executive Summary - Losing Ground: The human rights impacts of oil ...
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