Newline Road Landfill Gas Capture and Combustion Project

Newline Road Landfill Gas Capture and Combustion Project is a landfill gas project located at the Newline Road Engineered Landfill in Raymond Terrace, approximately 26km north of Newcastle in New South Wales. It was registered in July 2015 and operates within a commercial and local council landfill site that has the operational capacity to accept up to 200,000 tonnes of dry waste each year.

Landfill gas projects involve upgrading or installing gas collection systems to capture methane gas generated by decomposing organic landfill waste, which encompasses both legacy and non-legacy waste sources. The captured methane is then sent to a combustion device, such as a flare or an electricity generation system, to be converted into carbon dioxide, significantly reducing its global warming potential.

The Raymond Terrace area sits within the Hunter Region, an area characterized by a mix of urban, industrial, and agricultural land uses. The region experiences a moderate to high rainfall coastal climate, and the local soils generally consist of residual sandy clays, siltstone, and sandstone common to the Hunter floodplain.

This project transitioned from a revoked 2012 Carbon Farming Initiative (CFI) methodology to the 2015 Landfill Gas methodology. It also saw a change in its project proponent from SUEZ Recycling & Recovery Holdings Pty Limited to LMS Energy Pty Ltd, mirroring shifts following the global merger of SUEZ and Veolia. Interestingly, in late 2024, the site's operator, Veolia, was issued a $30,000 fine by the NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) for failing to adequately cap the landfill and properly manage excess leachate levels, which posed a risk to local waterways.