‘Very hard life now’: 12 years after the Montara oil spill, Indonesians are still fighting to be heard
by Ben Doherty from Environment | The Guardian on (#5V27T)
The spill in the Timor Sea was one of Australia's worst environmental disasters, with thousands of seaweed farmers claiming it destroyed their livelihoods
The oil came without warning.
One morning in September 2009 it was there, coating Daniel Sanda's modest seaweed farm on the Indonesian island of Rote: a dark sheen across the water, waxy yellow-grey blocks floating in the sea.
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