Local police were called to Curtis Island, near the town of Gladstone, on Monday after routine equipment inspections on the Queensland Curtis LNG (QCLNG) project found winches appearing to have been intentionally damaged.

“A number of chain block lifting devices, which are used to lift equipment and material into place where it can then be secured, appear to have been tampered with,” Bechtel Gladstone general manager Kevin Berg said in an emailed statement to Upstream on Wednesday.

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