Greenpeace for environmental protection must pay more than $ 660 million damage to defamation and other claims made by a pipeline company regarding the protest against the construction of Dakota Access Ficeline in North Dakota, the jury was found on Wednesday.
Dakota Access based in Dallas have accused the Netherlands based in the Netherlands, Greenpeace International, Greenpeace USA and the Arm Greenpeace Fund Fund Inc. for defamation, offense, necessity, civilian conspiracy and other acts.
Greenpeace USA were considered 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.
The transmission of energy called a verdict on Wednesday by a “victory” for “Americans who understand the difference between the right to freedom of speech and violation of the law.”
Greenpeace said earlier that the Grand Prize of the Pipeline Company would threaten to bankrupt the organization.
After a jury verdict with nine persons, 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,” Deep Padmanabha told reporters outside the courtroom.
The organization later said she was planning to complain about the decision.
“The fight against Big oil is not over today,” said Greenpeace General Councilor Kristin Casper. “We know that the law and the truth are on our side.”
Casper said that the Energy Transfer in Court will see in July in Amsterdam in a lawsuit against the intimidation that was filed there last month.
What were the charges against Greenpeace
The case is returned to protests in 2016 and 2017 against the pipeline of Dakota Access and its transition of the Missouri River upstream from the reservation of the Stame Rock Sioux tribe. For years, the tribe has opposed the line as a risk of water supply.
The Standing Rock Sioux tribe to stop the construction of a oil pipeline near North Dakota’s reservation failed on Friday in the Federal Court, but three US government agencies asked the pipeline company to “voluntarily pause” the work on the segment for which tribal officials say that Holy Artifacts.
More state pipeline transmits about five percent of the daily oil production of the United States. He started transporting oil in mid -2017.
The Trey Cox Lawyer said Greenpeace had performed a scheme to stop the construction of the pipeline. During the opening of the statements, Greenpeace allegedly paid out the outsiders to enter the area and protest, send stock for blocks, organized or conducted protest training and made false statements about the project to stop him.
Lawyers of the Greenpeace entities said there is no evidence of claims and that Greenpeace employees have little or no involvement in protests, adding that organizations have nothing to do with the delays of energy transmission in construction or refinancing.
Details of harm
Damage to a total of almost $ 666.9 million ($ 958 million). The jury has found that Greenpeace USA has to pay most of the damage, almost $ 404 million ($ 580 million), while Greenpeace Fund Inc. and Greenpeace International paid approximately $ 131 million ($ 188 million).
Energy transfer said in a statement of the Associated Press: “Although we are pleased that Greenpeace is responsible for his actions against us, this victory is really for people from Mandan and across the northern Dakota who had to live through daily harassment and disorders caused by protesters who funded and trained by Greenpeace.”
