What is the likely impact of the Integrated Resource Park on climate change?
As an alternative to landfill disposal of waste, the Integrated Resource Park will positively reduce our contribution to climate change. It will prevent the emission of methane gas from landfill sites. Methane is 21 times more potent than carbon dioxide as a climate changing gas. It will prevent the emissions caused by transporting waste to landfills outside the city when the site in Peterborough is full in a few years. It will displace energy generated by conventional means (coal, oil and gas), by generating electricity and hot water in the proposed combined heat and power (CHP) processes. All electricity exported from the Integrated Resource Park will displace energy currently generated from fossil fuel sources, thereby reducing the carbon dioxide emissions from power stations. Also those companies taking heat from the Park will cut gas, oil and coal usage for their heating needs, further reducing the emissions entering the atmosphere from businesses in Peterborough. This has been co
