Tweed Landfill Gas Project

Tweed Landfill Gas Project is a landfill gas project located at Stotts Creek in the Tweed Shire, approximately 15km south of Tweed Heads and 12km northeast of Murwillumbah in northern NSW. It was registered in February 2013 and covers an unknown area.

Landfill gas projects involve the installation of infrastructure, such as extraction pipes into landfill cells, to capture and combust methane-rich gas generated by decomposing organic material. By capturing and flaring this gas or converting it into electricity, these projects prevent potent greenhouse gases from entering the atmosphere. This particular project captures and combusts gas generated at the landfill from both legacy and non-legacy waste.

The Tweed Shire region is historically known for agriculture, predominantly sugar cane farming and cattle grazing, alongside its protected coastal environments and forested nature reserves. The area is classified as having a subtropical, high-rainfall climate. Soils in the region generally consist of rich volcanic basalts derived from the nearby Mount Warning caldera, as well as distinct clay and alluvial deposits along the floodplains.

An interesting note about this project is that it is operated by LMS Energy Pty Ltd, an industry pioneer that actually commissioned Australia's first successful landfill gas micro-power system at the Tweed Shire site in 2006. The project originally operated under a revoked Carbon Farming Initiative (CFI) method before successfully transitioning to the 2015 Landfill Gas methodology determination. Furthermore, it was contracted by the Commonwealth in February 2013 and has successfully fulfilled its fixed carbon abatement delivery obligations under contract CAC362004, which was formally completed in April 2022.