Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 23 October 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Peatlands Restoration and Rehabilitation: Discussion

Dr. Florence Renou-Wilson:

I am a soil scientist. I was talking about soils. The way one manages it can improve or disimprove the quality of the water or the air. Some soils are better than others. It is the same way that somebody has a soil that is better at growing grass and another that is not. There are some bad soils. I am a farmer as well and I have bad soils. I will not be able to grow a good crop of barley on a bad soil where there is Juncusbecause it is wet. Those wet soils are good for the climate. If one drains them, the soils become bad for the climate.

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