In Scotland, making whisky with energy from wind, wood chips and tides

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LOCHALINE, Scotland — A tippler might not know it from the pretty advertisements, which hype the mountain streams and woolly highlands, but making Scotch whisky can be a dirty business — an energy-intensive, carbon-spewing, peat-burning industry, mostly owned by multinational conglomerates that ship their $50-plus bottles to swells around the world.

On the picture-perfect western isles of Scotland famous for their whiskies — Islay, Skye, Jura, Arran — the whitewashed distilleries are often the largest sources of greenhouse gas emissions in their bucolic regions, ahead of the diesel ferries and pastures of belching sheep.
But something head-turning is happening.
The owners of the 140 distilleries in Scotland have pledged, voluntarily, to transform the industry and make their operations “net-zero” in carbon emissions by 2040, a decade earlier than Britain as a whole and five years earlier than Scotland has promised.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/clim...ng-whiskey-with-energy-wind-wood-chips-tides/
 
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