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Greenpeace’s environmental group ordered North Dakota The jury to pay more than $ 660 million regarding protests against the pipeline construction for Dakota approaches.
Energy transfer based in Dallas and Dakota Access Branch Accused Netherlands based in the Netherlands, Greenpeace International, Greenpeace USA and Arm Greenpeace Fund Inc. for defamation, transgressment, annoyance, civilian conspiracy and other acts.
Greenpeace USA was He considers that he is responsible For all points, while others were considered responsible for some. The damage that is owed will be widespread in different quantities in three entities.
Representatives Greenpeace talking to journalists on Wednesday outside the Morton District in Mandan, ND (AP Photo/Jack Dura)
In a statement, Greenpeace called the lawsuit “meritable.”
“This case should alarm everything, regardless of their political preferences,” said Sushma Raman, the temporary executive director of Greenpeace Inc, Greenpeace Fund. “It is part of the renewed encouragement of the corporation to arrest our courts to silence disagreement. We should all be concerned about the future of the first amendment, and a lawsuit like this aimed at destroying our rights to a peaceful protest and freedom of speech.”
Members of the Greenpeace press conference next to a giant artistic installation entitled ‘Perpetual Plastic Machine’ ahead of global plastic contracts on Saturday, May 27, 2023, in Paris. (Photo/Aurelien Morissard)
Greenpeace said earlier that the Grand Prize of the Pipeline Company would threaten to bankrupt the organization. After the verdict, Deep Padmanabha, a senior legal advisor Greenpeace, said the work of the group “will never stop”.
“This is a really important message today, and we just go out and we will gather and understand what our next steps are,” she said outside the courtroom.
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In this file photo on December 1, 2016, the Oceti Sakowin Camp, where people gathered to protest that in the background there was a pipeline for access to Dakota oil while the children were sank down the hill at Cannon Ball, ND, ND (AP Photo/David Goldman)
The organization said she was planning to complain about the decision.
Energy transfer The verdict on Wednesday called the “victory” for “Americans who understand the difference between the right to freedom of speech and violation of the law.”
“Although we are pleased that Greenpeace is responsible for his actions against us, this victory is indeed for people of mandans and throughout the northern Dakota who had to live through daily harassment and disorders caused by protesters who financed and trained and trained in Greenpeace,” said Digital Lisice Dress.
Protesters who showed the expansion of Dakota Access Pipeline Wade in the waters of Cold Creek faced local police, near Cannon Ball, ND, November 2, 2016. (AP Photo/John L. Mone)
The company said that the lawsuit was not about free speech, but instead of protesters who did not follow the law.
The case comes from a protest in 2016 and 2017 compared to the multi -stage oil access oil oil. The Standing rock Sioux tribe opposed the project, saying that it was a risk of water supply and imposed damage on their country.
Thousands of protesters camped for months near Standing Rock reservation, where the pipeline crossed below the Missouri River.
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The price is transported by about 5% of the daily oil production of the United States. It Started transporting oil Mid -2017.
Free speech and Environmental advocates They criticized the trial, saying that the lawsuit was related to the muffle of the protest and meant to bankrupt the opponents.
Associated Press contributed to this report.
