and the RATS take another one in the.........HA ha!!!
Posted on 03/23/2025 5:10:20 AM PDT by Libloather
The environmental organization Greenpeace was ordered to pay more than $660 million dollars to the Texas-based pipeline company Energy Transfer this week over its role in the Dakota Access Pipeline protests nearly a decade ago.
The outcome was a blow to the environmental advocacy group, which has previously said that a lawsuit of this size could bankrupt its U.S. operations.
Energy Transfer, the operator of the Dakota Access Pipeline, accused Greenpeace USA and International of playing a central role in organizing the resistance to the pipeline at Standing Rock in 2016 and 2017. The protests drew national attention as activists set up camp on land owned by Energy Transfer in an attempt to delay the project’s construction. Law enforcement responded by deploying water cannons, tear gas, and other weapons on unarmed protesters—injuring hundreds. Greenpeace denied the company’s claims, and has said the case is “one of the largest Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPP) cases ever filed.”
“Greenpeace played an extremely limited role at Standing Rock, and is proud of showing up in solidarity with Standing Rock activists,” Deepa Padmanabha, senior legal advisor for Greenpeace, said in a statement in February. The protests brought together thousands of activists from around the country who opposed the development of part of the Dakota Access Pipeline on the Standing Rock reservation. “At no time did Greenpeace engage in property destruction or violence. All claims to the contrary are a reckless disregard for the truth.”
Experts say that the success of the so-called SLAPP lawsuit—and heavy penalty Greenpeace was dealt—stands to silence other activists who speak up against big companies. “This verdict, especially given its scope, really changes the calculus for advocacy groups who are engaged in, not just environmental issues, but more generally, in advocacy,” says Jennifer Safstrom, director of the Stanton Foundation...
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Now sure the DNC for destroying American cities in 2920... 2015... 1968.
Gonna be hard to come up with that kind of dough without USAID funding😎
If Rudy is subject to 500 million dollar fine for causing a couple of leftist election fraudster some butt hurt, this number should be eleventy billion🤔
The faster we can take out America-hating, commie activists, the faster America will become GREAT AGAIN.
When the protest was over, the Indian land they wanting to protect was throughly trashed. Area looked like a waste landfill site.
I think we all remember that one because of the filth that was left behind. Environmental hypocrisy on display.
I will argue that there will be bankruptcy followed by rebirth and resurrection under a different name.
They were not taken out. They were merely organizationally deprived
They have a fleet of ships called “Neptune’s Navy” with the craziest names. I’m for mothballing the “Bob Barker” and the “Martin Sheen”.
“””When the protest was over, the Indian land they wanting to protect was throughly trashed. Area looked like a waste landfill site. “””
I have done work on numerous Indian reservations here in the midwest. Many of them are like landfills with homes here and there.
I recall watching videos of the cleanup. Huge front end loaders scraping up piles of trash.
These activists were scum of the earth whose only concern was to be agitators. They never cared at all for the environment or they would have cleaned up after themselves instead of having the locals come in and do it for them.
They were typical America hating lefties.
the dog finally caught the car ...
“They have a fleet of ships called “Neptune’s Navy” with the craziest names. I’m for mothballing the “Bob Barker” and the “Martin Sheen”.”
wouldn’t it be better to sail them to a breaking yard to help pay for the $660 million fine? ... i’m sure there’s a few tens of thousands of dollars worth of scrap steel and such ...
we should have been suing these nutjobs all along!!!
why didn’t the whaling vessels sue them for ramming their ships?
why didn’t developers sue them for tying themselves to trees?
why are downtown businesses suing BLM groups for destroying their downtowns?
why no RICO charges against all these criminal groups?
I want to see handcuffs, leg restraints and frog-marching to the awaiting paddy wagons...trials and convictions and sentences. The perps receiving Justice is the only way to stop this criminal behavior.
how about charges for all the race pimps that have EXTORTED businesses over the years along with RICO charges!!!
LOL - hey leftists, Red States have courts too!
Let it be so.
This is exactly what lefties have been doing to any organizations they don't like, using the courts to punish and destroy their enemies.
and the RATS take another one in the.........HA ha!!!
Deepa Padmanabha, senior legal advisor for Greenpeace = DEI hire. This incompetent DEI moron managed to inflate a $300 million lawsuit into a $660 million judgement.
Haha!
The idea that this was a SLAPP lawsuit is absurd- they are criminals. Revocation of their tax status ought to be next.
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