Indonesian tycoon bears responsibility for devastating mud volcano, contends new research

Mongabay
By Philip JacobsonJul 1, 2015, 7:49 am85 pts
A mud volcano responsible for displacing more than 40,000 people in Indonesia's East Java province was caused by an oil and gas company owned by one of the country's richest tycoons, and not by an earthquake as company executives and some scientists have claimed, according to new research out of Austraila's…

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