Forest Road Landfill Gas Project

Forest Road Landfill Gas Project is a landfill gas project located at the Tamworth Regional Council waste management facility in Tamworth, NSW. It was registered in April 2016 and operates over an unspecified area size within the broader Forest Road Landfill site. While the project footprint is dedicated to waste management, the surrounding North West Slopes region of NSW is heavily utilised for agricultural purposes, particularly cattle grazing and wheat cropping. The Tamworth environment is classified as sub-humid with a summer-dominant rainfall pattern averaging around 667mm annually. The local and surrounding agricultural soils generally consist of sandy loams and heavier clays.

Landfill gas projects involve the installation of a gas collection system, typically a network of extraction wells and piping, to capture methane emissions produced by decomposing legacy and non-legacy organic waste. The standard requirements of the methodology dictate that this captured methane must be destroyed to prevent it from entering the atmosphere, which is achieved either by combusting the gas in a flare or by routing it into a generator to produce electricity.

This project was initially established to capture and flare methane, but in December 2024, it transitioned its methodology specifically to the Electricity Generation from Landfill Gas determination, allowing the captured emissions to be converted into usable power. Additionally, the project held a Commonwealth carbon abatement contract (CAC781171) which was awarded in late 2016 and successfully fulfilled its delivery obligations upon completion in December 2024. The host landfill site is a major regional hub that also operates extensive recycling, resource recovery, and composting facilities for the Tamworth community.