Environmental Defenders Office to pay Santos' $9m legal costs
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The news: The Environmental Defenders Office (EDO) will pay Santos' legal costs of more than $9 million, following court orders in the Tiwi Islanders and environmental activists' case against the company.
The context: The costs order covers the entirety of Santos' legal costs incurred in defending the case.
In January, Federal Court of Australia judge Natalie Charlesworth dismissed the case in which the EDO, had alleged "cultural features" would be damaged by a 262km underwater gas export pipeline, running from the Barossa gas field to the existing Bayu-Undan pipeline.
Charlesworth's dismissal of the case was in part down to a "cultural mapping" exercise by the EDO. She said it was "so lacking in integrity" that no weight could be placed on it and that this aspect of the case had amounted, at least partly, to "confection" or "construction."
The source: Santos media release
