AJ Bush G4 Bioenergy Project (Revoked)

AJ Bush G4 Bioenergy Project (Revoked) is an industrial wastewater bioenergy project located at the AJ Bush & Sons meat-rendering facility in Bromelton, approximately 6km west of Beaudesert in South East Queensland. It was registered in March 2017 and covers an unknown area.

Domestic, commercial, and industrial wastewater projects generate carbon credits by capturing and destroying biogas (primarily methane) generated by the decomposition of organic matter in wastewater streams. The standard requirements for this methodology involve installing anaerobic digesters or engineered covers over wastewater lagoons to trap the emitted biogas, which must then be safely combusted using a boiler, internal combustion engine, or flaring device to prevent its release into the atmosphere.

The Bromelton and Beaudesert area is known for heavy industrial and manufacturing operations within the Bromelton State Development Area, surrounded heavily by cattle grazing and agricultural land. The region experiences a subhumid, subtropical climate with an average annual rainfall of around 926mm, and the local soils are generally highly fertile Vertosols (cracking clays) and Dermosols.

This project was established to install anaerobic digesters, replacing the deep open anaerobic lagoons that were previously treating industrial wastewater from the rendering plant. The carbon contract associated with this project lapsed in April 2019, and the project was officially revoked in March 2020 under section 30 of the CFI Rule. The current listed proponent, Janus Electric Holdings Limited, became associated with the project ID through a corporate restructuring when the original bioenergy assets were sold.