Environmental Defenders Office ordered to pay Santos $9m in legal costs after failed lawsuit to block gas project | NT Independent

Environmental Defenders Office ordered to pay Santos $9m in legal costs after failed lawsuit to block gas project

by | Nov 28, 2024 | Business, News, Subscriber | 4 comments

Environmental lawyers who represented Tiwi Islanders in their bid to stop gas giant Santos’ Barossa Gas Project from going ahead have been ordered to pay the company more than $9 million in legal costs, after the Environmental Defenders Office was found to have engaged in “a form of subtle coaching” during the case.

The traditional owners and the EDO had argued pipelines from the Barossa Gas Project would impact on culturally significant sites involving the Ampiji rainbow serpent and the Crocodile Man.

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4 Comments

  1. Now that’s the best news all year.

  2. At last, a wake up to what has been happening for years in all cases.

  3. EDO is Government Funded so we all pay a %..

    Wake up people+

    • Believe the CLP has stated they will stop their funding, all we need is to get rid of ANAL’s clowns and these clowns should be history.

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