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Days of Black Tide: How Montara Broke a Sea and a People
Days of Black Tide: How Montara Broke a Sea and a People
The Timor Sea took seventy-five days of uncontrolled oil from a wellhead platform that no one could seal, and within eight days the slick had spread to 180 kilometers across - but did the oil ever reach Indonesian coasts 37 kilometers from Rote or remain 94 kilometers away as the operator claimed? This episode opens the contested map of distance, damage, and accountability that still has no clear answer.
In this episode, we lay out the sequence of events, the companies and agencies involved, the reported human and economic impacts, and…
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