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The ultra‑polluting Scarborough‑Pluto gas project could blow through Labor’s climate target – and it just got the green light

The Albanese government has this week thrown its support behind what’ll be one of Australia’s most polluting developments: the Scarborough-Pluto gas project in Western Australia. We calculate that the ...
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KBR in pole position for Pluto expansion work

KBR is competing against incumbent Pluto LNG contractor, Foster Wheeler with WorleyParsons, to be the main contractor for the expansion project. Both parties began separate front-end engineering and ...
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Bechtel receives thumbs up to start work on Pluto 2 LNG train

US contracting giant Bechtel has been issued with a notice to proceed with various activities related to the construction of the second liquefied natural gas train at Woodside's Pluto LNG project in ...
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The US spent 7 years developing a nuclear-powered cruise missile that could carry 12 thermonuclear warheads — then cancelled it

In 1957, the U.S. Air Force began Project Pluto — a nuclear-powered cruise missile program. The result was the Supersonic Low Altitude Missile (SLAM). It was designed to fly at Mach 3 at a few hundred ...