Sentence examples for peat extraction from inspiring English sources

According to national strategies for extracting peat in Finland, new peat extraction areas should be established on previously drained peatlands.

Peat extraction is important on Sedgemoor.

Peat extraction is also a significant source of carbon emissions, releasing around 1.25m tonnes of carbon dioxide each year.

Bord Na Móna Allen Peat Limited and others engaged in peat extraction and transport were also parties to the case.

Peat extraction for energy purposes causes major changes in the aquatic and terrestrial environment.

The results showed that wetlands constructed on drained peatland areas can purify peat extraction runoff.

Milled peat is commonly produced by large scale mechanized peat extractions, whereas the other two are produced on a smaller scale by manual, semi-mechanical or mechanical methods, either in dry or in wet conditions.

A combination of agricultural activities on the mineral soils and shallow peat coupled with extraction of the peats thicker than 2 m is a possibility.

The extraction of peat wasn't completely given up, the deep pits were abandoned, but peat continued to be dug from the surface until the 1920s and 30s.

They had been used for small-scale extraction of peat for fuel from medieval times, and probably much earlier, but commercial extraction of the peat for animal bedding began in the 1880s.

Specifically, they argued that there was no evidence in the record to "suggest that the extraction of peat from any particular source is wholly contingent upon operation of the power plant," that the plant could procure peat from other bogs, and that a refusal to extend the plant's permit would not cause extraction from the bogs at issue to cease.