ExxonKnews
March 21, 2025
Corporations hoping to stifle their critics could feel emboldened after a jury ruled that one of the world’s largest environmental organizations has to pay hundreds of millions of dollars for assisting protests against a major oil pipeline company.
The verdict in a case brought by Energy Transfer slaps Greenpeace with nearly $667 million in damages for its involvement in the Dakota Access Pipeline protests nearly a decade ago. Energy Transfer accused Greenpeace of inciting the protests in 2016 and 2017, arguing that the nonprofit’s public statements about the pipeline and the training it offered to protestors violated defamation, trespass, and other North Dakota state laws in a “violent scheme” against the company.
