What assessment its Environment and Rural Affairs Department has carried out of the climate change implications of building the Aberdeen We…

Answered Asked by Shiona Baird Green Lodged 22 Feb 2006

The question

To ask the Scottish Executive what assessment its Environment and Rural Affairs Department has carried out of the climate change implications of building the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route.

The answer

Answered by Ross Finnie on 2 Mar 2006

Transport Scotland sharedits analysis of the carbon dioxide emissions associated with options for the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route with my department. The preferred route, announced inDecember, was assessed as resulting in lower increases in greenhouse gas emissionsthan the route inherited from the councils.

In the Official Report

No contribution in the Official Report cites S2O-09174 by reference.