A spaceport in the Highlands was approved by the Scottish Government – despite fears that it will destroy precious bogs storing 400million tons of carbon.
The £17.3million rocket launch site in the Highlands is set to send small satellites into space by late 2022 after being given the green light by ministers last year.But environmentalists raised serious concerns that the development could lead to the destruction of Europe’s largest blanket peat bog, in Sutherland’s Flow Country.Peat’s role in capturing carbon in so important that Cop26 delegates in Glasgow will be able to step inside a giant “peatland pavilion” to learn about it.And a report drafted by a team of researchers in 2019 investigating the Sutherland development stated:
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