Peat in North America...

[MarkMazer]

Screen today: "In defense of PEAT"  https://www.greenhousemag.com/article/peat-defense-james-altland/

[David Pilling]

"In defense of PEAT" 

Very interesting. For the likes of me (hobbyist in UK), peat is history and I've got no problem with the replacement.

It does sound like the energy situation - the pending UK government [1] is saying it will de-carbonise the grid by 2030 (and reduce energy prices as a result). Meanwhile North America is awash with low cost natural gas and any reductions in usage of fossil fuels in the UK will simply give countries outside Europe more fuel to burn.

[1] we're in week 2 of a 6 week general election campaign whose result is a formality.