Six years after the Montara oil spill, those who suffered most still seek compensation

A fisherman who stumbled upon some pools of oil in the Timor Sea says he first thought his boat was leaking. Then he looked around and it was everywhere: a thick coating over the water’s surface.  “I thought I’d spilt some oil out of the boat, but then it was all around me. There was a lot of it, there was no doubt about that,” the fisherman said. “It was so far away from everyone at the time, nobody really noticed it, the public didn’t notice it.” The oil was leaking from an oil well off the West Australian coast. Read the rest here 13:36

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