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Bill Hare, Adjunct Professor, Murdoch University

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

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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.

Our analysis last year found the full Scarborough-Pluto project will emit almost 1.4 billion tonnes of greenhouse gases over its lifetime. That’s over three times Australia’s current annual emissions, and around 14 times WA’s annual emissions.

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