Greenpeace’s Dakota Access Pipeline, a 2016 and 2017 energy transfer protest campaign, was one of the group’s most well-known and popular initiatives. Nine years later, that extremely crusade put the Legacy Green Group on its knees.

North Dakota ju-deciding on March 19th that Greenpeace was responsible $667 million The target developer of Dakota Access Pipeline and Group’s organizational activities in 2016 and 2017 in damages paid for energy transfer. Energy Transfer, led by Gibson, Dan & Crutcher LLP’s Traecox, has Greenpeace on the verge of shutting down US operations, once wrapped up US operations thanks to protests. DCNF. (Related: “Spoiled Brat”: Greenpeace co-founder supports a pipeline tycoon campaign to punish his old group)

Many well-known officials and figures lined up behind anti-pipeline activists as they disrupt construction, lend credibility and concealed them in the movement. It was in it American democratic socialistLeonardo DiCaprioBen Affleck, Democrat Massachusetts Senator Ed MarkeyThe late Arizona Democratic lawmaker. Raul Grijalva Former democratic Hawaiian lawmaker – and current Director of National Intelligence – Tarshi Gabbardespecially.

“Whatever they can do.”

First of all, Cox said the brand’s branding as “Indigenous-led” involvement in Greenpeace’s demonstrations is misleading as it brought paying Indigenous activists from outside North Dakota to participate in actions against the construction of the pipeline.

“Greenpeace said it did this in solidarity with Indigenous tribes, and it was Indigenously driven, but the tribe there is Standing Rocksoo. Greenpeace did nothing at Standing Rocksoo,” Cox said. “Instead, they paid Indigenous professional protesters from California, Canada and elsewhere in the future. They flew there. They paid them.

“Greenpeace, which means professional protesters, paid trainers to get into the standing lock. Then they offered a huge training tent, and they sent out these things called “lock boxes.” This is a mechanism you can use to attach yourself to people, or you can attach yourself to the equipment, and you need to cut it off,” Cox told DCNF. “They coordinated their attacks on the Dakota Access Pipeline during construction. For example, a third of the group of protesters block one road, another third block another road, and the last third rises to the right where the pipeline is built and do destructive things to the equipment or the pipeline itself.”

Specifically, activists linked or trained to Greenpeace-Paid protesters destroy equipment by cutting wires, putting sand into gas tanks of various machines, and painting them over windows, Cox said. In fact, Hardline protesters do “anything can be done to stop the construction of this pipeline.”

Destruction and damage to equipment is part of a broader effort to disrupt the company’s contractual obligations and cause further financial harm beyond costs beyond repair equipment, Cox explained.

“They realized there was a shipping contract scheduled for January 1, 2017, so they did whatever they could to interfere with their ability to complete this pipeline and miss out on being able to ship the product, the crude oil. (Related: Greenpeace’s iconic “Rainbow Warrior” ship is chopped up on third world beaches and sold in scraps)

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“The ju-secret was absolutely clear.”

The destructive action that led protesters to transfer more than $150 million in the energy costs of building the pipeline, told DCNF. The company had to ponies out of pockets to cover property damage, covering additional working hours delayed by activist construction setbacks, and the refinance forced by the disruption added about $70 million to unexpected profits and payments.

What is difficult to quantify is the damage caused to the corporation by claims for honor losses imposed on it in public squares, and the claim that energy transfer “sue the group sued and silenced “first amendment protected activities.”Strategic litigation against public participation” (slapp). Not long after the verdict fell, Greenpeace and some of its best officials issued it. statement and op-ed Condemn the verdict as an attack on freedom of speech.

Despite the group’s claims, Cox says the unanimous ju judge’s verdict against Greenpeace completely undermines such a debate.

“They conclude this and say this is the big oil they’re trying to stop them. We all said they support people who exercise their rights to amend, the legal right to petition, the legal right to protest. Similarly, if you tell a malicious lie, the ju-describer was completely clear about it,” Cox told DCNF. “We continue to say that actions by Greenpeace are unacceptable by our social standards and norms, and that it is a slap suit, and there is no zero to support that.

Greenpeace says it will appeal to the ruling and continue to live the case, and its international sector will also fight back on energy transfer in the Netherlands. Cox dismissed Greenpeace’s Dutch lawsuit as “a purely fundraising propaganda play.”

“When it comes to the lawsuits they have in the Netherlands, it’s a complete publicity stunt,” Cox said. “You can say everything we hope it’s a slap suit or that we don’t have a basis for it, but you’re not dealing with a slap suit any more after the motion that has rejected or past the summary judgment motion.”

Cox told DCNF that he was asking people in the oil and gas industry about the incident and asking if they could pursue similar actions following the Greenpeace verdict.

“I’ve been receiving a lot of calls and questions about what happened in this case. “I’ve been receiving calls from the oil and gas industry. I’ve been receiving calls from many other industries that have been affected as well.”

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