Mirabooka Landfill Gas Project

Mirabooka Landfill Gas Project is a landfill gas project located at Mirrabooka, approximately 12km north of the Perth central business district in Western Australia. It was registered in August 2012 and operates over an unspecified area size.

Landfill gas projects involve the installation of a gas collection system within a landfill site to capture methane generated by the decomposition of organic waste. Standard requirements dictate that the captured methane must then be combusted, either through a high-temperature flare or a gas engine to generate electricity. This process converts the highly potent methane gas into carbon dioxide to significantly reduce the site's greenhouse gas emissions.

The Mirrabooka area is situated on the Swan Coastal Plain and is heavily characterised by urban development, commercial sites, and industrial activities such as waste management. The region is defined by a Mediterranean climate with hot, dry summers and moderate to high winter rainfall. The soils across this coastal plain region are predominantly deep, highly permeable, and infertile coastal sands, such as the Bassendean and Quindalup dune systems.

Managed by LMS Energy Pty Ltd, this project transitions from a revoked Carbon Farming Initiative (CFI) method to the 2015 Landfill Gas methodology and continues to capture and combust gas generated at the landfill from both legacy and non-legacy waste. Historically, it holds significance as one of the very first four landfill gas capture projects in Australia to be approved under the original national CFI scheme. The project was originally contracted in August 2012, and its carbon abatement contract (CAC362004) has now been successfully completed.