'Rivalea Bungowannah Piggery Biogas Project

Rivalea Bungowannah Piggery Biogas Project is an animal effluent management project located at Bungowannah, approximately 16km northwest of Albury in the Riverina region of New South Wales. Registered in January 2013, the project operates at the Bungowannah piggery, though the exact project area size is not specified in the public registry.

Animal effluent management projects involve collecting and destroying methane gas generated from animal manure. Under this methodology, the biogas is captured using engineered covered lagoons and combusted, preventing the potent greenhouse gas from entering the atmosphere and instead generating verifiable carbon credits.

The Bungowannah area is well known for mixed farming, including broadacre cropping, pastoral grazing, and large-scale intensive livestock production such as piggeries. The region experiences moderate, reliable rainfall averaging around 574mm annually. The soils in this part of the Riverina and the nearby Southern Slopes are typically texture contrast soils such as Chromosols, featuring loamy topsoils over clay subsoils, as well as Dermosols.

The facility is managed by JBS Pork Australia, which acquired the site formerly known under Rivalea, historically one of Australia's largest pork producers. Due to the significant capital cost and complexity of the operations, biogas projects like this are typically only viable on larger, heavily integrated farms. Since its initial registration, the project has successfully transitioned through multiple versions of the Carbon Farming Initiative methodologies, most recently updating in June 2026 to the 2019 Animal Effluent Management Determination (Compilation No. 2) to continue effectively capturing and destroying methane emissions.