Tweed Landfill Gas Project

Tweed Landfill Gas Project is a landfill gas abatement project located in the Tweed Shire, just south of the New South Wales-Queensland border near Tweed Heads. Registered in February 2013, the project operates within the confines of a regional waste management facility to capture emissions. The surrounding Tweed region is known for a mix of coastal urban development, rural residential properties, and diverse agriculture including sugar cane, beef, and dairy farming.

Landfill gas projects operate by installing infrastructure to collect methane gas generated by the decomposition of legacy and non-legacy organic waste. Under the Carbon Farming Initiative - Landfill Gas Methodology, this captured methane, a highly potent greenhouse gas, is combusted using a flare or an electricity generator. This process destroys the methane, converting it into less harmful carbon dioxide, thereby preventing it from entering the atmosphere and earning carbon credits.

The Tweed area is classified as a subtropical, high-rainfall environment, receiving an average of nearly 1,600mm of precipitation annually. The region's terrain is diverse, featuring coastal sandy soils as well as rich alluvial and clay-based soils (such as Dermosols and Chromosols) along the floodplains, heavily influenced by the local geological formations.

LMS Energy Pty Ltd, the project's proponent, is a major player in Australia's bioenergy sector, specialising in methane abatement to help meet net-zero targets. Notably, the Tweed Landfill Gas Project transitioned from an older, revoked 'CFI' legacy waste method to the 2015 methodology determination. The project previously held a fixed delivery carbon abatement contract (CAC362004) with the Australian Government for over 900,000 tonnes of abatement across several pooled sites, which was successfully completed in April 2022.