Etude d'opportunite visant la construction d'infrastructures de captage, de pompage...
Type of initiative
FCM Green Municipal Fund - Plans, Studies, Pilots
Sector
Energy
Project value$200,000
Project Type
Feasibility Study
Sub Sector
Waste to Energy – Landfill Gas
Grant amount$41,250
Program type
GMF
Municipality
Ville de Sherbrooke, QC
Status
Fully Disbursed
Population
172,950
Project timeline
2008 - 2011
Project number
2617
Description
The city's project would identify the technological options available to reclaim and utilize bio–gas (methane and carbondioxide) from the landfill site. Reclaiming bio–gas created by burying municipal waste would make it possible to producegreen energy. That green energy could replace energy produced from fossil fuels or hydro–electric dams. Quebec istabling new regulations about waste material that will require private and public owners of landfill sites to investsignificant sums of money to capture and eliminate the bio–gas that their buried waste produces. If this studydemonstrates the feasibility of particular technologies, they could be adopted at sanitary landfill sites across Quebec, aswell as across Canada.
Applicant
Ville de Sherbrooke, QC