Caboolture Landfill Gas Project

Caboolture Landfill Gas Project is a landfill gas project located near Caboolture, approximately 45km north of Brisbane in Queensland. It was registered in July 2015 and the project area size is unknown.

Landfill gas projects involve installing active gas collection systems to extract methane-rich biogas produced by decomposing organic waste. The captured methane is then combusted in flares or gas engines, preventing a potent greenhouse gas from entering the atmosphere and generating renewable electricity in the process.

The Moreton Bay region is a peri-urban area known for growing residential developments alongside historical grazing and forestry operations. The area is considered high rainfall, experiencing a subtropical climate with over 1,000mm of annual rain, and soils generally consist of loamy topsoils overlying clay subsoils.

This project transitioned from a revoked 2012 Carbon Farming Initiative method to continue capturing gas from both legacy and non-legacy waste. Operated in partnership with LGI Limited, the project was bundled with the nearby Bunya and Dakabin landfill sites under a Carbon Abatement Contract (CAC752641) in April 2017, which successfully delivered 313,410 tonnes of carbon abatement before completing in May 2022.