Secretary of state Eric Pickles will decide by 19 September on whether growing-media producer Sinclair's Chat Moss bog near Manchester can be harvested in light of a planning row.
Horticulture Week Friday, 22 June 2012
Continuation of peat extraction at Chat Moss refused
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Peat will no longer be extracted from 10,000-year-old moss land in Salford following a government ruling.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-ma ... r-20268223
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-ma ... r-20268223
Cred air o bob deg a glywi, a thi a gei rywfaint bach o wir (hen ddihareb Gymraeg)
Believe one tenth of what you hear, and you will get some little truth (old Welsh proverb)
Believe one tenth of what you hear, and you will get some little truth (old Welsh proverb)
Great news - NOT?
I suppose that now there will be even more half-recycled rubbish in the compost bag.
John
I suppose that now there will be even more half-recycled rubbish in the compost bag.
John
The Gods do not subtract from the allotted span of men’s lives, the hours spent fishing Assyrian tablet
What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning Werner Heisenberg
I am a man and the world is my urinal
What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning Werner Heisenberg
I am a man and the world is my urinal