North Goonyella Waste Coal Mine Gas Power Station (Revoked)

North Goonyella Waste Coal Mine Gas Power Station (Revoked) was an industrial fugitive emissions project located at the North Goonyella coal mine (now known as Centurion Mine), approximately 40km north of Moranbah and 160km west of Mackay in the Bowen Basin of Central Queensland. Registered in October 2016 by EDL CSM (Qld) Pty Ltd, the project was designed to capture methane gas, a byproduct of underground coal mining, and utilize it to generate electricity, thereby preventing the gas from being vented directly into the atmosphere.

The project operated under the Coal Mine Waste Gas methodology, which incentivizes the capture and combustion of methane, a potent greenhouse gas released during coal extraction. By converting this gas into electricity, the project aimed to reduce emissions while generating useful power to displace grid electricity. The Bowen Basin region is heavily industrialized with coal mining operations but also supports extensive cattle grazing. The local environment typically features semi-arid conditions with cracking clay soils (Vertosols), often supporting Brigalow scrub or open grassland.

A significant factor in this project's history was the major underground mine fire at North Goonyella in September 2018, which forced the evacuation and long-term closure of the mine. This operational halt likely rendered the gas capture project unviable, leading to the lapse of its carbon abatement contract in January 2021 and its eventual revocation from the Clean Energy Regulator's scheme in October 2022. The mine has since been rebranded as the Centurion Mine and is undergoing processes to reopen.