Greenpeace Loses Dakota Access Pipeline Trial, Faces Bankruptcy and Extinction; Greenpeace Said It Might Go Bankrupt If It Lost a Pipeline Company Lawsuit But Now That a Jury Has Ruled It Must Pay $650 Million It Says Its Work ‘is never going to stop’

Greenpeace Loses Dakota Access Pipeline Trial, Faces Bankruptcy and Extinction:

In 2016 and 2017, the left vented its shock and fury at Donald Trump’s unexpected victory by, among other things, protesting the construction of an oil pipeline in North Dakota. The “mainstream” media claimed that Energy Transfer was ramming its Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) through all sorts of sacred Native American lands and that no one wanted it.

In fact, Energy Transfer went out of its way to work with natives and locals, and most were glad of the opportunity and prosperity DAPL would provide. Nonetheless, environmentalist activists co-opted a protest by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, making it into the face of the spurious claims. Professional protestors from near and far got into the act, throwing sand into the project’s gears at the construction site, at funding sources, and in the PR sphere. In the end, these actions delayed the project by five months and added approximately $350 million to the cost, Energy Transfer claimed in a lawsuit it launched in 2019.

Energy Transfer named three Greenpeace entities — Greenpeace USA, Greenpeace International (based in the Netherlands), and Greenpeace Fund — as the organizers and funders of this sabotage. And on Wednesday, a North Dakota jury found that the infamous non-profit must pay the price for its actions.

The nine-person and two-alternate jury deliberated for two and a half days before arriving at its unanimous verdict.

Associated Press summarized Energy Transfer’s case thusly: —>READ MORE HERE

Greenpeace said it might go bankrupt if it lost a pipeline company lawsuit but now that a jury has ruled it must pay $650 million it says its work ‘is never going to stop’:

A North Dakota jury on Wednesday found Greenpeace must pay hundreds of millions of dollars to a pipeline company in connection with protests against the Dakota Access oil pipeline.

The jury found Greenpeace liable for defamation and other claims and awarded Dallas-based Energy Transfer and subsidiary Dakota Access more than $650 million in damages.

The lawsuit accused Netherlands-based Greenpeace International, Greenpeace USA and funding arm Greenpeace Fund Inc. of defamation, trespass, nuisance, civil conspiracy and other acts.

Greenpeace said earlier that a large award to the pipeline company would threaten to bankrupt the environmental group. Following the nine-person jury’s verdict, Greenpeace’s senior legal adviser said the organization’s work “is never going to stop.”

The independent global campaigning network has been fighting for a wide array of environmental issues for more than half a century and has a long history of contentious legal battles.

Here are some things to know:

How was Greenpeace founded?

Environmental activists founded the group in Vancouver, Canada, in 1971.

The network’s first action was to work to stop more nuclear weapons tests on Amchitka Island in the Aleutian island chain in southwest Alaska. They took a ship toward the island to “bear witness,” which is a Quaker protest tradition, but were intercepted by the U.S. Navy, according to the Greenpeace website.

The U.S. later opted to abandon their nuclear testing grounds on the island, marking Greenpeace’s first major victory.

Where did the name Greenpeace come from? —>READ MORE HERE

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