Enviropower Investments Goondiwindi Piggery Project

Enviropower Investments Goondiwindi Piggery Project is an agricultural methane destruction project located approximately 12km north of Goondiwindi in southern Queensland. It was registered in March 2014 and its specific project area size is publicly undisclosed.

Destruction of methane from piggeries projects involve collecting biogas generated from piggery manure waste and combusting the methane component. Under this standard methodology, proponents typically use covered lagoons or engineered biodigesters to capture the methane gas that would otherwise be released into the atmosphere, converting it to carbon dioxide, which has a significantly lower global warming potential.

The Goondiwindi area is a prominent agricultural region well known for high-intensity cropping (such as cotton and winter cereals) as well as cattle and sheep grazing. The region is semi-arid with a summer-dominant rainfall pattern (averaging around 600mm annually). The soils in this area are famously characterised by deep, self-mulching cracking heavy clays along the river plains, alongside some shallower, gravelly soils in elevated zones.

Interestingly, this project underwent a methodology variation in August 2014, shifting from the initial "Engineered Biodigesters" method to the "Manure in Piggeries-1.1" method. In October 2018, the active participant name was updated to CPC Piggeries Pty Ltd. Furthermore, the project successfully fulfilled a fixed delivery contract (CAC336810) with the Australian Government, successfully delivering 82,000 ACCUs before the contract concluded in April 2020.