Greenpeace says a pipeline company’s lawsuit threatens the organization’s future
- Energy Transfer, a Texas-based oil and gas company, has filed a defamation lawsuit against Greenpeace, seeking nearly $300 million in damages.
- Energy Transfer accuses Greenpeace of defamation, vandalism, and harassment during the protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline from 2016 to 2017.
- Greenpeace denies the allegations and argues that the lawsuit threatens its future and violates its freedom of speech principles.
- The trial is seen as a test of First Amendment rights and raises concerns about corporate use of legal actions to silence activism.
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Texas pipeline company's $300 mil. lawsuit against Greenpeace heads to trial in North Dakota
A Texas pipeline company's lawsuit seeking potentially hundreds of millions of dollars from Greenpeace was set to advance with opening statements Wednesday in a trial the environmental organization calls an effort to silence critics of the oil industry.
Greenpeace Faces $300 Million Lawsuit That Puts the Longtime Environmental Nonprofit at Risk of Bankruptcy
Greenpeace is being sued by Energy Transfer, a Dallas-based company that is accusing the longtime environmentalist group of having disrupted its business with protests near the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation almost a decade ago. The trial began Monday in North Dakota, and, if successful, the lawsuit could bankrupt the nonprofit. Filed in state court, legal action accuses Greenpeace of an “unlawful and violent scheme to cause financial harm to E…
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