Conservationists Seek Halt of Major Australian Gas Project

SYDNEY - Conservationists are launching a federal court challenge against a major gas project off Western Australia's coast. Campaigners insist the plan would be, in their words, a "really, really big carbon bomb," although the company involved says it has passed rigorous environmental scrutiny.

The Scarborough gas field is a natural gas field located in the Indian Ocean, hundreds of kilometers off Australia's we