It's the smell and texture, as well as knowing that peat makes a good ground cover and soil improver.
A look at this vast wasteland of charred stumps and dried-out peat makes the fight to save Indonesia's forests seem nearly impossible.
The organic content of peat makes it a problematic basement soil for highway construction.
Peat also made connections with benefactors such as Dr. George H. A. Clowes, Booth Tarkington, and Eli Lilly.
Back then, thousands of tons of gravel were scooped from riverbeds and spread far and wide on the peat to make roads and drilling pads.
On receipt of the land, the villagers drained the peat to make the land more productive by dissecting it with a labyrinth of canals.
Drainage and resulting oxidation of carbon-dense peat, combined with annual fires [60, 61], made peat the source of nearly half (45%, 1.35 Gt CO2 yr-1) of Indonesia's annual emissions, and 3% of global emissions, in 2005 (Table 1; [67]67]).
Drainage and resulting oxidation of carbon-dense peat, combined with annual fires [ 60, 61], made peat the source of nearly half (45%, 1.35 Gt CO2 yr-1) of Indonesia's annual emissions, and 3% of global emissions, in 2005 (Table 1; [ 6, 67]).
The smokiness comes from the tradition of using peat — bog soil made of decomposed vegetable matter that was harvested to fuel kilns used for drying barley.
The Peat report also made no reference to one of the most explosive allegations which led to the inquiry being launched - that a member of the royal family had been seen in a sexual encounter with one of the staff.
