Molendinar Landfill Gas Project

Molendinar Landfill Gas Project is a landfill gas project located in Molendinar, approximately 8km west of Southport on the Gold Coast in Queensland. It was registered in July 2014 by LMS Energy Pty Ltd and operates on an active waste management site. The project area consists of heavily modified land situated within a broader urban, commercial, and industrial landscape.

Landfill gas projects involve the installation of a gas collection system to capture methane produced by the decomposition of organic waste. The standard requirements under this methodology dictate that the captured methane must be combusted, either through flaring or via electricity generation engines. This process destroys the methane, converting it into less potent carbon dioxide and preventing it from entering the atmosphere.

The Gold Coast region is classified as having a sub-tropical, high rainfall climate. While the natural soils in the wider region generally consist of coastal sandy loams and underlying clay subsoils, the project site itself is a heavily modified landfill cell environment designed with capping materials for strict waste and gas containment.

This project is a "transitioning project", meaning it moved from a revoked early Carbon Farming Initiative (CFI) method to the 2015 methodology determination to continue capturing gas from both legacy and non-legacy waste. Furthermore, the project was contracted by the Commonwealth in April 2017 under contract CAC873169. Along with the Stapylton and Reedy Creek Landfill Gas Projects, it successfully completed its fixed delivery obligations and the contract was finalized in June 2022.