A Federal Court judge has demolished the evidence of a green group seeking to halt Santos’ $5.8 billion gas project in the Timor Sea, ruling that claims of risks to Indigenous cultural heritage relied on contradictory and made-up evidence.
The court found that some evidence presented by the Environmental Defenders Office, a taxpayer-funded group, involved “confection” and the coaching of Indigenous witnesses.
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