Shares crash over building delays and cost blowout at troubled WA gas plant
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Shares crash over building delays and cost blowout at troubled WA gas plant

Beach Energy shares plummeted in early trading on Monday,with its chief executive conceding extreme disappointment over quality issues in the late-stage WA project.

  • byPeter Milne

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