Enviropower Investments Goondiwindi Piggery Project

Enviropower Investments Goondiwindi Piggery Project is a waste emissions avoidance project located approximately 6km west of the township of Goondiwindi in southern Queensland. Registered on March 17, 2014, the project sits within the Darling Downs region, an area heavily utilized for intensive agriculture including cotton production, grain cropping, and livestock grazing.

The project operates under the 'Destruction of Methane Generated from Manure in Piggeries' methodology. Standard piggery operations often utilize anaerobic lagoons to treat manure, a process that naturally releases significant amounts of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, into the atmosphere. This project mitigates those emissions by covering the lagoons with engineered membranes to capture the biogas. The captured gas is then combusted (flared) or utilized for renewable electricity generation, converting the methane into carbon dioxide, which has a significantly lower global warming potential.

Environmentally, the Goondiwindi region is defined by its semi-arid to subtropical climate with a summer-dominant average rainfall of approximately 525mm. The local landscape consists of flat alluvial plains featuring fertile, black cracking clay soils (Vertosols), which are characteristic of the Border Rivers catchment and highly suitable for water retention in agricultural earthworks.

A key feature of this project is its successful participation in the Australian Government's Emissions Reduction Fund (ERF). The project secured a Carbon Abatement Contract (CAC336810) in April 2015 to deliver 82,000 Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) to the Commonwealth. This contract was successfully completed on April 29, 2020. The project proponent has transitioned over time from Enviropower Investments (trustee for the JB & KB Cameron Superannuation Fund) to CPC Piggeries Pty Ltd.