Most days, the work of an EPA inspector is a thankless job, not least for those taking on the task of inspecting peat extraction sites across a myriad of bog complexes in the midlands. Traversing winding, bouncy bog roads, a handful of inspectors with the Environmental Protection Agency were out in force over the last year to inspect numerous sites across five counties.  Their goal? To establish the building blocks for any enforcement proceedings needed to stop bogs from being commercially exploited in breach of domestic and European law designed to protect the last remaining vestiges of Ireland’s greatest carbon…

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