Enviropower Investments Goondiwindi Piggery Project

Enviropower Investments Goondiwindi Piggery Project is an agricultural methane destruction project located at Lundavra, approximately 12km north of Goondiwindi in Queensland. It was registered in March 2014 and covers an unlisted project area.

The project operates under the Destruction of Methane Generated from Manure in Piggeries methodology. These types of projects involve capturing the biogas generated from decomposing piggery manure waste, typically using covered anaerobic lagoons or engineered biodigesters, and combusting the methane component via flaring or electricity generation. This activity safely converts the highly potent methane gas into less harmful carbon dioxide, significantly reducing the facility's overall greenhouse gas emissions.

The Goondiwindi region is highly regarded as a premier agricultural district, characterised by a mix of intensive livestock farming, such as large-scale piggeries and cattle grazing, alongside the broadacre cropping of cotton, wheat, and sorghum. The area experiences a semi-arid to sub-humid subtropical climate with an average annual rainfall of between 540mm and 620mm. Local soils are predominantly deep, fertile black self-mulching and cracking-clay loams (known as vertosols) as well as alluvial soils, which provide a highly productive foundation for the region's diverse agricultural sector.

Operated by SP Northern Farming Piggeries Pty Ltd, a company deeply tied to the Cameron Pastoral Company and the broader SunPork Group, the project is situated on the "Lundavra" property, which hosts one of the largest pig farming enterprises in Australia with a current capacity of approximately 80,000 standard pig units. This carbon project was contracted by the Clean Energy Regulator in April 2015, and its contract (CAC336810) to deliver 82,000 Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) to the Commonwealth was successfully completed in April 2020.