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Tractors and peat faming machineries are lined up in Taisto Raussi s peat fields in Sippola, Finland Alessandro RAMPAZZO Text size
Pictures by Alessandro Rampazzo. Video by Sam Kingsley
On a barren expanse of bog in southeast Finland the size of 180 football pitches, Taisto Raussi s yellow harvester hoovers up a thin layer of rich peat and deposits it in a heap, to be sold as fuel.
The Nordic country is by far the EU s largest burner of peat and is mired in a divisive battle over a source of energy which is more polluting than coal and can cause catastrophic environmental damage.