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101878
Fri, 01/22/2010 - 22:59
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RI TO REQUEST COMPENSATION FOR TIMOR SEA POLLUTION
Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia, Jan. 22 (ANTARA) - Indonesia is preparing a request for compensation from Australia for the pollution of the Timor Sea due to the Montara crude oil leakage last August 2009.
"A laboratory test conducted by the Timor Sea oil leak examination team showed that the Timor Sea was polluted by crude oil coming from the Montara oil field. Therefore, we are preparing a request for compensation from Australia for the pollution," Pieter Fina, head of the Timor Sea Oil Pollution Mitigation Team, said here recently.
Fina, head of the Tenau Kupang harbor administration, made the statement after he had attended a technical meeting on the team's result in Jakarta, last January 15.
The compensation demand would be based on Law No. 3/2009 on Environmental Protection and Management and on the presidential regulation No. 109/2006 on the Emergency Mitigation of Oil leakage in Sea and the Mitigation Cost, he said.
Due to the oil pollution, the incomes of fishermen operating in Timor Sea had fallen significantly and seaweed cultivations in Timor Island as well as Rote and Sabu Isle had failed completely, he said.
The oil pollution has disadvantaged fishermen and seaweed farmers in NTT coastal areas, therefore Indonesia would ask for compensation, he said.***
"A laboratory test conducted by the Timor Sea oil leak examination team showed that the Timor Sea was polluted by crude oil coming from the Montara oil field. Therefore, we are preparing a request for compensation from Australia for the pollution," Pieter Fina, head of the Timor Sea Oil Pollution Mitigation Team, said here recently.
Fina, head of the Tenau Kupang harbor administration, made the statement after he had attended a technical meeting on the team's result in Jakarta, last January 15.
The compensation demand would be based on Law No. 3/2009 on Environmental Protection and Management and on the presidential regulation No. 109/2006 on the Emergency Mitigation of Oil leakage in Sea and the Mitigation Cost, he said.
Due to the oil pollution, the incomes of fishermen operating in Timor Sea had fallen significantly and seaweed cultivations in Timor Island as well as Rote and Sabu Isle had failed completely, he said.
The oil pollution has disadvantaged fishermen and seaweed farmers in NTT coastal areas, therefore Indonesia would ask for compensation, he said.***
