Gas crisis grips Oz boomtown
China Daily | Updated: 2008-06-24 07:55
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A man looks at a damaged pipeline after an explosion at the Apache Energy plant on Varanus Island, 116 kilometers off the coast of Western Australia, on June 3, crippled the facility, which supplies 35 percent of the state's natural gas. AFP |
Richard Hyland spends each afternoon calling Alinta Ltd to plead for electricity to keep the kilns fired at Midland Brick, the world's largest brickworks, in Perth, Western Australia.
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