North Bannister Landfill Gas Capture and Combustion project

North Bannister Landfill Gas Capture and Combustion project is a landfill gas capture project located at North Bannister, approximately 94km southeast of Perth in Western Australia. It was registered in November 2018 and the exact project area size is unknown, which is standard for fixed-footprint landfill waste facilities.

Landfill gas projects involve installing specialized gas collection infrastructure within a landfill to extract methane-rich gas generated by decomposing organic waste. The captured gas is then combusted, often using flares or gas engine electricity generators, to safely convert the potent methane into carbon dioxide, drastically reducing the overall global warming potential of the emissions.

The North Bannister area sits near the edge of Western Australia's Wheatbelt and the Darling Range, a region predominantly known for broadacre cereal cropping, sheep grazing, and surrounding state forestry operations. The local environment experiences a Mediterranean climate typically characterized by moderate winter rainfall, while soils in the region generally consist of lateritic profiles, gravelly pale deep sands, and loams.

This project was established to install a new collection system to capture and combust gas generated from both legacy and non-legacy waste at the North Bannister Resource Recovery Park. The site receives household, commercial, and industrial waste streams from across Perth and the South West. Notably, the current proponent, VELMS Joint Venture Pty Ltd, is a collaborative entity formed between previous individual project participants LMS Energy and Veolia. In 2024, the project was also updated to operate under the newer 2021 compilation of the landfill gas methodology.