White Chapel

Environmental Scientist.

Politics, privacy, independent thought & freedom of speech.

[Ashley @gloverstweets]

Ireland currently has no national limits for organic pollutants in wastewater sludge applied to land

https://t.co/j1ISmlouDQ

[White Chapel @White_Chapel0]

@williamhboney1 I wonder how has the trend in Ireland varied over the last 10 - 20 years?

This would tell us more about Irish society than comparisons to other countries..

[White Chapel @White_Chapel0]

@jimmyfalco77 @gloverstweets Now, to go back to the sites that are the subject of the article, these are not BnM sites & the operators are not carrying out peat harvesting using similar methods to BnM.

This is total removal of all peat from the bog with no consideration for remediation.

i.e. not comparable

[White Chapel @White_Chapel0]

@jimmyfalco77 @gloverstweets Seeing as you are fixated on BnM and not the sites in question, I'll answer by saying that Mount Lucas is the best example which shows that bog restoration can be carried out other developments on spent bogs.

Whether all bogs should be turned into wind farms is a separate issue.

[White Chapel @White_Chapel0]

@jimmyfalco77 @gloverstweets The point is obvious, i.e. it's mostly opposition to wind farms, nothing to do with preserving or restoring bogs.

Also, most of the sites in question are in no way similar to BnM operations. It's totally misleading to compare them.

[White Chapel @White_Chapel0]

@catdeans @denbypottery Reminds me of this video from the Michael Moore documentary Roger & Me about the closure of GM plants in America and moving the production of American cars abroad.

People nonsensically applauding the end of an era and the end of their jobs..

https://t.co/CFsAiNp1OW

[White Chapel @White_Chapel0]

@KevinPoppix5r5 @EwanMacKenna You clearly have no class, you absolute loser.

[White Chapel @White_Chapel0]

@jimmyfalco77 @gloverstweets There was full scale peat harvesting & dewatering of bogs being carried out at multiple sites less than 10 years ago.

An Taisce, Friends of the Irish Environment & a handful more were the only objectors, but somehow this was less controversial than wind farms.

Money talks.

[White Chapel @White_Chapel0]

@KevinPoppix5r5 @EwanMacKenna I'm watching the Munster Hurling Final, theres nobody here cosplaying as American, and there's definitely nobody here cosplaying as you..

[White Chapel @White_Chapel0]

@EwanMacKenna @KevinPoppix5r5 Looks like one of the locals is unhappy with criticism of American consumer culture..

[White Chapel @White_Chapel0]

@saorman @Niall_Boylan No there isn't.

[White Chapel @White_Chapel0]

@EwanMacKenna Not sure, probably like those vodka and Lidl multi fruit "cocktails" you used to get offered by the bar reps on holidays years ago..

The language in the description just reminded me of the George Carlin 80s stand-up piece about advertising.

Very funny considering the time gap.

[White Chapel @White_Chapel0]

@jimmyfalco77 @gloverstweets So dewatering for peat harvesting is justified, but the use of the same equipment to dewater the bog for other developments is not?

[White Chapel @White_Chapel0]

@Niall_Boylan For any of your followers who are even remotely interested in the facts, this is about unlicensed industrial peat extraction.

It has zero to do with turf cutting for domestic use.

Zero..

You are stealing a living based on populist nonsense.

#disgrace

[White Chapel @White_Chapel0]

@JakeFitzsimons While that may be true, it doesn't change the fact that vast numbers of state owned properties are derelict with no prospect of them being restored & no risk of them being lost or repossessed.

Meanwhile, citizens could lose private property for doing the same.

Not reasonable.

[White Chapel @White_Chapel0]

@jimmyfalco77 @gloverstweets I'm not convinced that these are comparable to be honest.

There are obvious double standards in many of the objections against BnM wind farms where former BnM employees, families etc. who now oppose dewatering for wind farms never objected to dewatering for peat harvesting..

[White Chapel @White_Chapel0]

@gloverstweets I often wondered if any (including BnM) ever had discharge licenses with local authorities.
I assume not, but I could be wrong.

Also, what's going on in a lot of these places is far more severe than the peat milling operations ran by BnM over the years..

[White Chapel @White_Chapel0]

@KitMurray @TinaMax8 @Carlowcountyco1 Lots of examples across the country where full estates were built and sold to LAs as turnkey social housing development contracts.

Developers of private estates are obliged to provide a small number of houses to LAs under Part V agreement for social/affordable schemes.

[White Chapel @White_Chapel0]

@EamonMelia That's an intentional oversimplification of what is really going on, which completely misses the point of the article.