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The money behind the coming wave of climate litigation
Those affected by environmental disasters are turning to the courts for redress, stoking debate about who should pay to bring the cases
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An aerial view shows the oil spill from the sunken fuel tanker MT Princess Empress on the shores of Pola in Philippines, on March 8.
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Camilla Hodgson
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In 2009, huge volumes of oil spilled into the Timor Sea from a well off the coast of Western Australia. The 2½-month leak caused catastrophic damage to marine wildlife and upended the livelihoods of thousands of Indonesian farmers, whose seaweed crops were destroyed.
At the end of 2022, the company that operated the well settled a years-long legal fight with more than 15,000 Indonesian farmers who had brought a class action suit against it. PTTEP Australasia agreed to pay them A$192.5 million (S$171.7 million) in compensation without admitting liability.
