"It is a giant cabon sink, and not only are we contemplating removing it, we are then going to burn it to create even more carbon because we are so addicted to electricty."

I remember a farmer once telling me how it takes hundreds and actually thousands of years to develop these peat bogs. It's like everything else we dig into.....stuff that's easy to find disappears really quickly relative to it's development. One could almost look at these places we dig up as natures grave yards where nature has a certain reverence for it's dead....and tends to respond as we would....and has her way of getting even. When peat takes a year to produce one tiny mil. of peat depth, compare that to how quickly our machines can dig it up. Then factor all of that carbon going into the air as CO2, the loss of wetlands and the wildlife the bogs support. I suspect the environmentalists would really have something to sink their teeth into here. The Russians already have pressure in this area to fix up the situation. A lot of thought needs to go into something like this however the greater the money involved the less the thought.