Delivered late last month, the Court of Appeal issued a judgment awaited with bated breath by all in and around the lucrative commercial peat sector. The three-judge panel was tasked with examining an appeal brought by one of the country’s leading peat companies, Harte Peat, against a 2022 High Court order granting an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) injunction which blocked it from extracting peat on a key bog complex in Co Westmeath. It was harvesting without an EPA licence. The family-owned Co Monaghan business, which is the main supplier of casing for the mushroom sector, also appealed a second High…

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