Peatlands Debate

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Viscount Ridley

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Peatlands

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Ofsted: Annual Report 2012-13
Wednesday 8th January 2014

(10 years, 11 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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This side.

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Lord De Mauley Portrait Lord De Mauley
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No, my Lords; that is why I mentioned the new environmental land management scheme.

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My Lords, is the Minister aware that it is not only in this country and not only with wind farms that some renewable energy projects are proving to be worse for carbon emissions, because of their effect on peat? For example, a study from Leicester University showed that biomass production from tropical peatland forests can worsen the effect of carbon dioxide emission.

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That is a very interesting point, but it strays a little wide of the Question.

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