It’s mad the effect the decline of the peat industry has had on those old Bord na Móna towns in the Midlands.
Swear I’ve seen this headline over and over for the past 5 years
Learns that we’ll now import more Brazilian wood chip leading to deforestation of Amazon now:(
Bord na Mona was just an employment programme with absolutely zero commercial viability. The peat burning operation was so crazily expensive that even though the average BNM salary was 50,000 euro, it would have been cheaper to pay each staff member 100,000 to sit at home and do nothing.
See the calculations by John Fitzgerald in the Irish Times a few years ago.
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To import biomass from Brazil instead
It’s mad the effect the decline of the peat industry has had on those old Bord na Móna towns in the Midlands.
Swear I’ve seen this headline over and over for the past 5 years
Learns that we’ll now import more Brazilian wood chip leading to deforestation of Amazon now:(
Bord na Mona was just an employment programme with absolutely zero commercial viability. The peat burning operation was so crazily expensive that even though the average BNM salary was 50,000 euro, it would have been cheaper to pay each staff member 100,000 to sit at home and do nothing.
See the calculations by John Fitzgerald in the Irish Times a few years ago.
It had to come to an end some day.
Good news
We will deeply regret this action…