JBS Pork Australia - Corowa Mod 1, 2 & Abattoir Biogas project

JBS Pork Australia - Corowa Mod 1, 2 & Abattoir Biogas project is an animal effluent management project located at Corowa, approximately 55km west of Albury in New South Wales. It was registered in December 2025 and the specific project area size is unknown.

Animal effluent management projects involve treating agricultural waste in a way that prevents methane emissions. The standard requirements involve capturing the biogas generated from the anaerobic decomposition of animal waste, often using covered anaerobic lagoons or engineered biodigesters, and destroying the methane through combustion, such as flaring or generating renewable electricity.

The Corowa region is situated in the Riverina and is known as one of the state's highest-producing areas for pork and grain. Regional land use consists heavily of intensive livestock agriculture, sheep grazing, and dryland broadacre cropping such as wheat, barley, and canola. The area features a temperate climate with reliable, moderate rainfall, and the soils are generally well-drained red-brown earths and clay loams.

This project collects and combusts methane generated from animal effluent at a new emissions destruction treatment facility. JBS Pork Australia operates one of the largest pork breeding and processing facilities in the southern hemisphere at this Corowa site. Upgrading the biogas infrastructure not only controls odour but also prevents massive volumes of greenhouse gases from entering the atmosphere. Once fully operational across the Corowa sites, JBS's gas capture operations are estimated to prevent up to 120,000 tonnes of CO2 equivalent from being emitted annually, converting agricultural waste into a valuable renewable asset.