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Re: Peat

I see mining peat much like mining coal: sequestered carbon is
being...unsequestered. It's being opened to the oxygen in the atmosphere.
It's being exposed to the process of oxidation to become CO2, a green house
gas (involved in climate change and the melting of the icebergs and
glaciers). In the case of peat there is very little reason to do it--I say
'very little' though I cannot think of one reason . This at a time when we
are working very hard to come up with ways to put liquid CO2 into ocean
trenches and defunct mines. Not to mention actually 'modifying our
agricultural and grazing practices' (Holy cow!!!) in order to leave more
'fixed' carbon in the soil.

Maryann  


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