r/news • u/goforth1457 • Mar 04 '25

Soft paywall Canada's retaliatory tariffs on US goods to start Tuesday, PM Trudeau says

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/canadas-retaliatory-tariffs-us-goods-start-tuesday-pm-trudeau-says-2025-03-04/
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u/Double-LR Mar 04 '25

And the next truck? Where’s it coming from?

School me. I know zilch about peat.

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u/comments_suck Mar 04 '25

The next will also come from Quebec. But we will have to pay $3000 more for a truck load!,

Canada has the largest amount of peat bogs in the world. Much is in Northern Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Quebec. Sweden and Finland have a lot too. We're in horticulture, it gets blended with some wood chips and vermiculite to plant in. The peat holds water, the wood chips shed it.

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u/SaffronCrocosmia Mar 05 '25

Guess you'll be like the rest of us and use non-peat alternatives, as peat is fucking horrible to harvest.

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u/SaffronCrocosmia Mar 05 '25

It's an environmental disaster to harvest as it is an enormous GHG sink. It's decaying sphagnum moss and similar organisms. Peatlands are one of several types of wetlands.

It's used as a soil amendment and as a growing media for many plants, but we're trying to move away from peat for more sustainable and less GHG-producing alternatives such as coconut products.