What do these turf cutters really want? (2 Viewers)

[Deadmanposting]

The right to strip the entire country of a natural habitat?
It used to be okay to do this, now it's not.

Is that so hard to understand?
We can't continue to rape the environment in the name of tradition.

Anyway, I don't expect any replies on this, but I am stuck on hold here, so I thought I'd share.



To thank you for your time, here is a picture from Ming Flanagan of a digger on fire

 

[Deadmanposting]

Looks like that radioactive Mr. Burns ghost.

A bit.

 

[therealjohnny]

The bog where I worked as a kid is now nothing but bare stones. Completely stripped. But at least it saved people from buying gas or oil for a few years

 

[Deadmanposting]

Until they'd dried the marrow from the bone.

[/yeats]

 

[Psycho Punk]

I have some sympathy for ordinary people, cutting turf for their own use. But there are also contractors who run commercial businesses and they'll strip whats left of the bogs in a few years. The equipment that was seized yesterday wasn't for home turf cutting.

Compensate ordinary people but not the contractors.

 

[Deadmanposting]

The Eu can compensate whoever. If a man's livelihood is taken away, sure give him a few quid. Whatever.

No one's arguing about compensation anyway. They reject every offer. They just want to keep cutting.

No one should be allowed cut any more turf on the protected bogs. No matter who they are.

 

[shower another shower]

Have 10 hoppers footed and airing from a local farmer. It's the mass production of brickettes from bord na mona that are destroying the countryside.

 

[Deadmanposting]

It's all of them.

 

[Psycho Punk]

Have 10 hoppers footed and airing from a local farmer. It's the mass production of brickettes from bord na mona that are destroying the countryside.

BNM do not cut on areas of special protection. Gardai and NPWS backed down and let them have the machinery back.

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

Bord na Mona are doing for the rest of us what these lads are doing for themselves - would that be fair? I don't see that much of a difference. If they had a listed building they wouldn't be allowed rip it apart and burn the windows on the basis that they were doing it for themselves.

 

[Psycho Punk]

Bord na Mona are doing for the rest of us what these lads are doing for themselves - would that be fair? I don't see that much of a difference. If they had a listed building they wouldn't be allowed rip it apart and burn the windows on the basis that they were doing it for themselves.

Well these bogs are designated as areas of special environmental protection. Not every bog is special. Not every field is special.

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

Well these bogs are designated as areas of special environmental protection. Not every bog is special. Not every field is special.

thats kinda what i mean, i think. I don't have much sympathy for them.

 

[Deadmanposting]

local bog. for local people.


Mongs.

 

[shower another shower]

Keep the bogs local.

 

[pete]

Keep the boggers local.

right on

 

[Deadmanposting]

right on

Amen, brother.

 

[shower another shower]

I'm only a transplant into bogger territory, but can foot turf with the best of them bai.

 

[nlgbbbblth]

Mongs.

Mings

 

[rettucs]

Bord na Mona are doing for the rest of us what these lads are doing for themselves - would that be fair? I don't see that much of a difference. If they had a listed building they wouldn't be allowed rip it apart and burn the windows on the basis that they were doing it for themselves.

if you own a listed building there are restrictions as to what kind of changes you can make to it. But, you get shitloads of financial benefits for sticking to them. I know someone who owns one of the most famous pubs in Dublin and he told me this was the case.

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

Start locking the fuckers up,as has been said they've been offered plenty of compo deals but have spurned them all.