Rockhampton Landfill Gas Project

Rockhampton Landfill Gas Project is a landfill gas capture project located at the Lakes Creek Road Waste Management Facility in Rockhampton, Central Queensland. It was registered in June 2020 and covers the footprint of the local municipal landfill.

Landfill gas projects involve installing specialized gas collection systems to capture methane and other greenhouse gases generated by decomposing organic waste. Under standard methodology requirements, the captured biogas must be safely combusted, typically through a flare or bioenergy generator, which converts the highly potent methane into less harmful carbon dioxide.

The Rockhampton area is widely recognized as the "Beef Capital of Australia" due to its extensive cattle grazing, which operates alongside regional cropping and mining operations. The region experiences a subtropical climate with semi-arid, summer-dominant rainfall, and the local soils are predominantly alluvial deposits near the Fitzroy River, as well as surrounding clays and loams.

This project was set up by LMS Energy in partnership with the Rockhampton Regional Council to capture gas from both legacy and non-legacy waste. It utilizes a network of 18 extraction wells drilled directly into the landfill, channeling the gas to an enclosed, industry-leading biogas flare. This infrastructure safely destroys the methane, preventing roughly 20,000 to 33,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent from entering the atmosphere each year. The project underwent a methodology variation in September 2021, and LMS Energy is exploring the future addition of a bioenergy power module to generate renewable electricity for the local grid.