MELBOURNE: Indonesian seaweed farmers were set to seek more than US$140mil (RM585mil) from Thailand’s PTT Exploration and Production in a trial to cover damage they say they suffered after Australia’s worst oil spill.
The class action represents more than 15,000 seaweed farmers who claim to have lost their livelihoods in the years after oil gushed into the Timor Sea for more than 74 days following an explosion at the Montara oil rig which happened in August 2009.
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