A North Dakota ju umpire determined on Wednesday that Greenpeace was liable for hundreds of millions of dollars for slandering the energy company, according to numerous reports on its role in the disruptive protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline projects in 2016 and 2017.
The pipeline-developing company sued Greenpeace USA, Greenpeace International and the Greenpeace Fund in 2019, seeking $300 million in damages for promoting the role of activist groups in promoting criminal conduct targeting pipelines by protesters against the project. According to To the Associated Press. Greenpeace has previously shown that a $300 million ruling on it could destroy the group’s US business.
With the current one standing, Greenpeace will have to pay $667 million in energy transfers. According to To the Washington Post. (Related: “They’re going to pay it”: A single Texas billionaire might be trying to force Greenpeace USA to bankruptcy)
The camper set a flare-up structure in preparation for the Army Company’s 2pm deadline to leave the Oketi Sacowin Protest Camp in Cannonball, North Dakota on February 22, 2017. Activists and protesters have been occupying Standing Rocksoo bookings for months, opposing the completion of the Dakota Access Pipeline. (Photo: Stephen Yang/Getty Images)
“We would like to thank the judges and ju-searchers for the incredible time and effort dedicated to this trial,” the Energy Transfer spokesman said in a statement shared with the Daily Caller News Foundation. “We are pleased that Greenpeace is responsible for its actions against us, but this victory is truly a win for the people of Mandan and North Dakota who had to arise from protesters that were funded and trained by Greenpeace. We.”
Greenpeace characterized the energy transfer lawsuit as an attack on first amendment protected speech, but the ju-death deliberate of Newdominant Mandan clearly disagreed.
“What we’ve seen over the last three weeks has been that energy transfer has blatantly ignored the voices of the Standing Rocksou tribe,” Dee Papad Manabha, senior legal counsel at Greenpeace USA, said in a statement shared with the DCNF. “And they also sought to distort the truth about Greenpeace’s role in the protest, but instead reaffirmed their unwavering commitment to non-violence in all the actions we take.
Meanwhile, the AP claimed that the energy transfer compensated Greenpeace to appear at development sites, trained activists who appeared at development sites, trained trained trained activists, and amplified false claims about the pipeline.
Kelsey Warren, a co-founder of energy transfer and a supporter of President Donald Trump, who once said climate activists should “have to be removed from the gene pool,” said Greenpeace is responsible for delaying the company’s multi-million dollar costs and the construction of the pipeline.
“Everyone is afraid of these environmental groups and the fear that they might look wrong if they fight back against these people,” Warren said in a 2017 interview. According to To the Wall Street Journal. “But what they did to us is wrong and they’re going to pay for it.”
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