Indonesian seaweed farmers seek US$140 mil over oil spill in Australia

MELBOURNE: Indonesian seaweed farmers were set to seek more than A$200 million from Thailand’s PTT Exploration and Production in a trial starting on Monday, to cover damage they say they suffered after Australia’s worst oil spill.

“We are now 10 years on from this environmental disaster and the oil company responsible and its wealthy Thai parent continue to deny the devastating impact their oil spewing out uncontrollably for months on end had on Indonesian seaweed farmers,” Ben Slade, a lawyer at Maurice Blackburn, which is running the case, said in a statement.

More than 30 witnesses from Indonesia, including seaweed farmers and oil spill, chemistry and environmental experts will give evidence at the 10-week trial in Sydney, Maurice Blackburn said.In 2016, when the class action was launched, PTTEP said it had always accepted responsibility for the Montara explosion but that satellite imagery, aerial surveys and models concluded no oil reached theIndonesian coastlines.

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