Forest Road Landfill Gas Project

Forest Road Landfill Gas Project is a landfill gas project located at the Forest Road Landfill in Tamworth, NSW. It was registered in April 2016 and covers an undefined area restricted to the landfill's footprint.

Landfill gas projects involve installing gas collection systems to capture methane emissions generated by decomposing organic waste. The captured gas is then combusted via a flare or an engine, which converts the highly potent methane into less harmful carbon dioxide.

The Tamworth area is a major agricultural hub known for extensive livestock grazing and grain cropping operations. The area is considered sub-humid with summer-dominant rainfall averaging 660mm annually, and soils in the region are generally Chromosols and Vertosols.

This project was established by the Tamworth Regional Council to install a new landfill gas collection system to capture and combust gas generated from legacy and non-legacy waste at the site. Interestingly, the project varied its methodology in December 2024 to transition into electricity generation, allowing the captured methane to be used to produce power rather than just being flared. Furthermore, the project successfully completed its initial Commonwealth carbon abatement contract (CAC781171) in December 2024, a contract which had been active since May 2017.