In November 2020, a viral video surfaced on social media platforms that, at a quick glance, appeared to show something otherworldly. Weighty, mature conifer trees matted to thick clumps of soil glided across a dark, watery surface. This was no trick of the camera but footage from the scene of a major bog slide which occurred close to the construction site for the Meenbog Wind Farm near Ballybofey on the Donegal-Tyrone border. Thousands of tonnes of dislodged peat washed down into a stream that feeds the Mourne Beg River, an important spawning ground for salmon and part of the EU-protected…

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