Tweed Landfill Gas Project

Tweed Landfill Gas Project is a landfill gas project located at Stotts Creek, approximately 15km south of Tweed Heads in the Northern Rivers region of NSW. It was registered in February 2013 and covers an unknown area within the Stotts Creek Resource Recovery Centre.

Landfill gas projects involve installing specialized infrastructure to extract methane gas emitted by decomposing organic waste. The captured gas is then combusted in an on-site flare or used to generate electricity, preventing a highly potent greenhouse gas from entering the atmosphere. Standard requirements for these projects include continuous metering of both the volume of gas collected and its specific methane concentration to accurately calculate carbon abatement and earn carbon credits.

The Tweed Shire area is widely known for sugarcane cultivation, forestry operations, and cattle grazing, while the immediate project footprint is dedicated to municipal waste management and resource recovery. The region experiences a subtropical climate and is classified as a high rainfall area, featuring soils that are typically rich volcanic basalt and alluvial floodplains.

This project transitioned from a revoked Carbon Farming Initiative (CFI) method and continues to capture and combust gas generated from both legacy and non-legacy waste. It was part of a major Carbon Abatement Contract (CAC362004) managed by the project proponent, LMS Energy, which successfully delivered over 906,000 ACCUs to the Australian Government across a portfolio of multiple landfill sites before reaching completion in April 2022. Furthering the host site's environmental goals, the Stotts Creek facility recently expanded its sustainability initiatives by opening a $7 million organics processing facility designed to divert up to 25,000 tonnes of food and garden waste from the landfill annually, which actively reduces future methane generation.