Australian Federal Court rules in favour of 15,000 seaweed farmers in the Montara oil spill class action

More than 15,000 Indonesian seaweed farmers may be compensated after oil and gas company PTTEPAA was found responsible for the devastation of their seaweed crops and livelihoods by the Montara oil spill in the Timor Sea in 2009. The central question before the Court was whether the Montara oil spill was the cause of the … Continue reading Australian Federal Court rules in favour of 15,000 seaweed farmers in the Montara oil spill class action