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Here is the Blanket Bog Conservation Status Assessment Report (2008) from the National Parks and Wildlife Service.
http://www.npws.ie/en/media/Media,6255,en.pdf
Appendix IV discusses the distribution of wind farms relative to blanket bog. It concludes:
Most educated people know that building wind farms in blanket bogs is a bad thing. NPWS confirm on p 14 that such wind farms are major CO2 emitters.
Can anyone name another country which builds most of it's wind farms on blanket bogs? Can anyone name a country whose wind industry has caused as many bogslides?
No? Didn't think so.
http://www.npws.ie/en/media/Media,6255,en.pdf
Appendix IV discusses the distribution of wind farms relative to blanket bog. It concludes:
That's 70% built in blanket bog habitats-70%. Some of the worst examples are of course in Donegal:Thus, overall 39 wind of 56 farms are located in areas corresponding to blanket bog.
The large 71MW wind farm at Meentycat, Donegal is also built on active blanket bog. (Table IV.1)The following are some of the examples of specific wind farms that are likely to be threatening blanket bog: Two
wind farms were erected on relative intact blanket bog, according to the 2000 aerial photographs, adjacent to SAC
2301 River Finn (Co. Donegal). Another wind farm was built on blanket bog adjacent to Fawnboy Bog (SAC
140) also in Donegal.
Most educated people know that building wind farms in blanket bogs is a bad thing. NPWS confirm on p 14 that such wind farms are major CO2 emitters.
NPWS (p 34) also point out the large number of landslides caused by construction of wind farms in unstable mountain bogs:Furthermore by building on blanket bog (massive carbon stores) greenhouse gases are released to the atmosphere by
direct degradation (excavation and removal of bog vegetation and peat, erosion or peat slides) or by disruption of bog
hydrology and capacity to form peat /store carbon). Thus, by impacting on carbon dynamics in peat soils in this way the
construction of wind farms on blanket bog is likely to release greenhouse gases and impair the carbon sequestering
function of the bog by impairing or causing the cessation of peat-formation.
At least two more large landslides have occurred at the end of 2008. Massive amounts of CO2 is emitted as displaced organic matter oxidises.Landslides and or peat slides have occurred during construction of several windfarms including Derrrybrien,
Moneenatieve, Kilronan and Sonnagh Old. (As reporting of slides is not mandatory this is a not a comprehensive
record of recent landslide occurrences).
Can anyone name another country which builds most of it's wind farms on blanket bogs? Can anyone name a country whose wind industry has caused as many bogslides?
No? Didn't think so.