Peat slip at Viking's Mid Kames site

A peat slip has occurred at Viking's Mid Kames site, but SSE Renewables said the area was "safe".

[@123TauruZ321]

I knew about quick clay, but not that peat did the same thing.

[@jimmyjames2022]

Awesome video but taken at great risk. I've been around many slides at work and really you want to run for your life not hang around and watch. Sheer luck this didn't extend under the videographer.

[@boblordylordyhowie]

It is a wonder it doesn't happen more often as SSE have some dodgy engineers that test for soil stability before they cut into it, undoing all the stability the site had. I was on one site where they did that and all the cable ducts had 2 feet of water in them and if you stood on site and moved up and down, you would sink into the soil.

[@thomasmint1761]

Ok, what is a peat slip?

[@freeforester1717]

Look up Derry Brien - when we try to ‘save the planet’ by digging in unsuitable areas to place ‘renewables’ (actually replaceables, they wear out, and the replacement stuff is always equally damaging to the environment), we end up destroying what we are supposedly trying to save. The ridiculous thing is that it isn’t even necessary. The cause of climate change is not the 0.04% carbon dioxide that is in our atmosphere, let alone the mere 3-5% proportion of this ESSENTIAL gas which is man-made, the overwhelming majority of it (95-97%) occurs naturally, but the increased energy output of the Sun ever since the beginning of the latest Gleissberg cycle, around 1958. Take a look at the records of sunspot activity between 22-26 December 1957; the US was by then already aware of the recurrent ca.12,000 year solar cycle (read nova, and ALL that comes with that), and wanted to verify that the tektite glass beads that came from the Sun and were deposited on Earth last time around (as has been found in sedimentary layers at 12,000 year intervals) were indeed of nova origin. Do you realise WHY the “Apollo” 🤔 missions were sent with men to the moon (along with the formation of NASA) and why this actually occurred after the intense solar activity? - it was to confirm what had been found on Earth was also found on the moon. Guess what they found? Guess too, why the Chinese went to the far side of the moon recently - was it perhaps because they were a little camera shy? 😂 A perfect correlation between the monthly mean sunspot number and the mean seasonal temperature variation clearly demonstrates that solar activity is the principal driver of global warming/cooling, depending on solar activity levels. Well over one thousand scientific papers have been produced demonstrating the link between Earth’s climate (which produces no heat to speak of sufficient to drive its own climate) and the Sun - our SOLE meaningful means of warming the planet, but from CIA hotbed of spook disinformation, Columbia university, Wallace S Broecker wrote a short piece for Science magazine (- look up volume 189, page 460, Aug 08 1975) suggesting that carbon dioxide was the reason the climate is/was warming (- which has since been conclusively disproven by Professors Happer and van Wijngaarden, both at Princeton - see Dr Thomas P Sheahen’s ‘Methane - the irrelevant greenhouse gas’ video, and Professor Murray Salby, Atmospheric Carbon, London, June 18, 2016 lecture), all to keep people from ‘looking up’ for themselves. Nevertheless, rather than ‘looking up’, a global industry has been created around this foolish notion. An X-class flare exceeding the magnitude of the Carrington Event flare left the Sun last 12/13 March (2023); another left the South polar region of the Sun just on 23rd January 2024 - we were lucky (again) that the March 2023 flare left the far side of the Sun and not toward us, but as the current Gleissburg cycle comes to its culmination we can expect to be in the firing line sooner rather than later - a ‘when’, and not ‘if’ scenario - highly probable within the coming decade to 20 years, beyond which time - ALL bets will be ‘off’. The recent extraordinary Aurora events of May 2024 are a portent of this. NO AMOUNT of solar nor wind power, nor environmental taxes nor hydrocarbon bans will change this. All this, at a time when our planet’s magnetosphere is weakening greatly, European Space Agency’s SWARM programme meeting in Copenhagen 08-12 April 2024 to discuss this very (serious) issue. Look at the increasing number of X-class flares that have occurred in the last solar cycle; this one reaches its climax this mid August 2024, with but a maximum of two, increasingly active 11-year solar cycles remaining before ‘the big event’. Doug Vogt, Diehold Foundation, Series 4 - watch them ALL. kzbin.info/www/bejne/mH7VXmh-fdN0o7c For a 4-minute demonstration of how a polar reversal works, search MarkoPL100 See also Brien Foerster’s video ‘Aftershock: The Ancient Cataclysm That Erased Human History For a more detailed view on energy efficiency (or the lack thereof) of wind and solar, see Lars Schernikau on Tom Nelson’s channel For a more detailed view of the coming energy crunch, see ‘Why there won’t be enough energy for everyone’ by Simon P Michaux For a more detailed view of the resource issues implied by going all electric, see Mark P Mills, SKAGEN Fondene lecture For a detailed view of our climate’s relationship with the Sun: Javier Vinós: The Sun and Climate: An intimate relationship kzbin.info/www/bejne/q16qZmtjZt-rgLcsi=SSqZMD45O6AfzX0l A short explanation of sorts as to why carbon dioxide cannot unduly adversely influence climate: put simply, the laws of thermodynamics are somewhat at odds with the IPCC’s ‘findings’ (Stick with it at 3-5mins, 7mins and 10mins in): kzbin.info/www/bejne/eaOweIehhaZ3fNksi=SrSENzekG7il_z3K and why CO2 cannot fufil the role ‘demanded of it’s by the IPCC (It’s all but over within the first 2 minutes): kzbin.info/www/bejne/iJOxf5uCps2Khsksi=ZK9h1SL7kj3kK0Dk For an in-depth look at what the IPCC and the BBC aren’t telling you: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gKXZg4mEfqqCg68si=pwB11ZW7YQZ47cah Shakespeare wrote: ‘What a terrible era, in which idiots govern the blind’…

[@argentum530]

From the Internet: Peat landslides form a distinct suite of slope failures that are characteristic of landscapes where organic soils dominate. Six main types of peat mass movement are recognized: bog burst, bog flow, bog slide, peat slide, peaty-debris slide, and peat flow.

[@thomasmint1761]

@@argentum530 I believe ya but lmao at the definitions. Who comes up with this stuff? Personally, my favorite is a bog burst

[@sheepdogman1]

Mother Nature protesting against Viking energy

[@starseedenergy]

Indeed. Mother Nature protested again on 7 May 2024 with another landslide at the 103 industrial wind turbine Viking site "in an area of hillside at Upper Kergord in the centre of the islands."

[@johncamp2567]

Remarkable!😲

[@jackgross6133]

Fascinating

[@pdterre5496]

Why is there no forest? Surely there has been one before the sheep.

[@andrewtrip8617]

Wrong climate and topography ?

[@pdterre5496]

@@andrewtrip8617 . I don´t think so. It is because of human activity. Forest used for building, firewood and creating pasture for sheep. Free grazing is a monster destroyer.

[@matthewbooth9265]

@@pdterre5496 It's the shetland islands, very windy, very cold. It's really not a great place to be...just like iceland's climate really. The trees that do grow are stunted and blown into weird shapes due to the wind.