On October 14, the Supreme Court gave the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) permission to bring an appeal in a little-known case about a peatland near Derrycrave in Co Westmeath. It may be little known but what the court decides could have major ramifications for the under-pressure, export-driven domestic peat extraction industry in the heart of the midlands of Ireland.  Last year, the Court of Appeal overturned a 2022 decision of the High Court to grant an EPA injunction which blocked Harte Peat, one of the country’s leading peat companies, from digging out peat as deep as five metres at the…

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