Peat restoration strategy to be released by the end of the year
Newly formed group Shetland Peatland Partnership has been made up by a group of stakeholders who’ve expressed an interest in being involved in peat restoration.
The Partnership will produce their Peatland Strategy for Shetland by the end of 2023, with a clear implementation plan set out thereafter.
By 2030, their vision is to see the community of Shetland protecting existing high-quality peatland and helping degraded peatlands to recover and return to being “thriving wetlands.”
Members include RSPB, NatureScot, Scottish Water, SEPA, HIE, SIC, National Trust for Scotland, Scottish Agricultural College, Shetland Amenity Trust, and Crofting Commission.
Mr ian Tinkler
May I suggest we stop burning wood and wood-chip. A simple and nearly complete answer to carbon capture is immersing all unusable wood in wet peat beds. In a few thousand years, that wood will become petrified. In a millennium or two it will become coal. If we follow the grant-led stupidity of Highland and Island Enterprises, it will become carbon dioxide gas. https://news.sky.com/story/power-giant-drax-told-by-own-advisers-to-stop-calling-biomass-carbon-neutral-12866031?fbclid=IwAR1bWphvS9UTNXBOqUz8ZHdDsBCQshbxnfi5PKXNJecEDpj5QTfb3EniQ5w
Mr ian Tinkler
Food for thought. Grant-led stupidity and easy money for some. https://www.chathamhouse.org/2022/10/why-burning-biomass-not-zero-carbon https://www.shetlandtimes.co.uk/2014/05/13/funding-to-turn-up-the-heat-at-gremista