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For Peat's Sake
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27 Feb 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| For Peat's Sake As a source of fossil fuel and gardening compost, peat bogs, those eminently British landscape features, are highly in demand -- so much so that some environmentalists fear they are in danger of disappearing. But that danger might be staved off for a while, thanks to a multi-million dollar plan to use taxpayer money to save some of the United Kingdom's most valuable peat bogs. ... |
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| Topics: energy, land stewardship, mining and drilling, United Kingdom (all these topics) |
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