David Twoomey
EcoNews, 13 June 2013
Using a piggery in the south east of New South Wales, Greenbank Environmental has announced the first successful trade of Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) under Australia’s Carbon Farming Initiative.
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Pig farm first to tap into carbon credits
Peter Hannam, Environment Editor
The Sydney Morning Herald, 25 October 2012
A New South Wales piggery has become the first in Australia to turn its manure into carbon credits, earning it as much as $150,000 a year.
Blantyre Farms, near Young in the state’s south-east, spent almost $1 million on a biogas generator that captures methane from the manure, turns it into electricity and exports it to the national grid.