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 […]
A North Dakota jury found Greenpeace liable for defamation and other claims related to Dakota Access Pipeline protests, awarding Energy Transfer and its subsidiary over $650 million in damages. Greenpeace, which says a large award could bankrupt the organization, was founded to protest nuclear testing and has since grown into a large environmental campaigning organization involved in various global environmental issues.
