We track the progress of a carbon removal project through our certification framework. This roadmap moves from a preliminary assessment of eligibility toward full certification under the Puro Standard.
The facility has successfully completed the preliminary assessment conducted by the Puro team, meeting the minimum criteria for listing as a future supplier on Puro.earth.
The facility has passed the third-party facility audit, verifying compliance with the methodology, as well as output audit, verifying the net volume of removed carbon. The facility has been issued CORCs and continues its removal operations, as well as monitoring and reporting to Puro.earth.
Development status
We monitor a facility’s maturity as it moves toward industrial-scale operations. This status identifies whether a project is in development, under construction, or actively removing carbon from the atmosphere.
The feasibility study is ongoing. The Supplier is still collecting data to prove the concept.
The front-end engineering and design are ready and methodology compliant. There is a clear plan to monitor and measure. The LCA is up to the needed quality level or subject to small improvements. The technology has been used before. There are commercial agreements with the relevant business partners of the facility.
The facility is fully funded and is being implemented. Relevant infrastructure is being built.
The facility is operating as a carbon removal facility.
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More about Fasera TSB Facility 1
Fasera is a world leader in sustainable businesses in the push to net-zero. The Fasera Terrestrial Storage of Biomass project joins our established Biochar and Environmental Planting projects to bring a third stream of carbon removal credits online.
Project Overview: Fasera takes the remnant biomass from our eucalyptus oil distillation operations, that is not suitable for pyrolysis and which otherwise would be burnt in situ to mitigate summer fire risk and stores it in anaerobic chambers, excavated on nonarable land on our Canterbury Farm, which is also where our distillation operations take place.
Facility Details: An initial 14ha site has been chosen for the facility with the capacity of 70 - 100 chambers with each holding approximately 1,000 tons of oil mallee Biomass. Each chamber is fitted with probes to continuously monitor temperature and humidity to ensure stable storage conditions.
Fasera also operates a remote weather station at the site to continuously monitor and record environmental conditions. The facility is in Kulja, in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia. It is a remote, dry, low rainfall area, >300 mm pa, making it an ideal site for the permanent storage of carbon.
The site will be rehabilitated with native grasses and small shrubs being encouraged to regenerate on and between the chambers.
Our Biomass: Typically, mature oil mallees comprise 20% leafy biomass from which Fasera extracts eucalyptus oil and 80% above ground woody biomass. This woody biomass is perfectly suited for terrestrial storage and otherwise has no viable use in this remote location.
Our resource is already established through stands of mature oil mallees that will be harvested for oil, setting them up for future continuous coppice harvests. The remnant woody biomass is chipped, dried and buried in TSB chambers, preserving the organic carbon for centuries.
With the development of Fasera’s various projects, we have become one of the largest employers in the Shire of Koorda, the local government area in which we operate , approximately 275km Northeast of the Western Australian capital city of Perth. With urbanisation reducing the workforce and residents in regional areas, Fasera has provided well paid roles in the regions to support the local community both directly and indirectly through services required to facilitate Fasera’s local operations.
Harvesting oil mallees once they reach maturity reduces their draw on the surrounding landscape, typically broadacre cropping land, thus rebalancing the delicate equilibrium between the trees drawing down the saline water table and reducing the nutrients available to crops. The remnant stump coppices almost immediately, initiating a new cycle of growth that will sustain many future harvests, providing biomass for both distillation and carbon sequestration , whilst facilitating food production and preserving soil health.
The facility will allow for the rejuvenation of an initial 14ha site of non arable land with grasses, returning the formerly neglected land to cover with indigenous flora. The regeneration through this process will ensure that this piece of land is not subject to wind erosion in the typical dry climate of the region.
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