Posted on 03/17/2025 3:36:50 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
MANDAN, N.D. (AP) — Closing arguments are scheduled to begin on Monday in a pipeline company’s lawsuit against Greenpeace, a case the environmental advocacy group said could have consequences for free speech and protest rights and threaten the organization’s future.
The jury will deliberate after the closing arguments and jury instructions. Nine jurors and two alternates have heard the case.
Dallas-based Energy Transfer and its subsidiary Dakota Access alleged defamation, trespass, nuisance and other offenses by Netherlands-based Greenpeace International, its American branch Greenpeace USA, and funding arm Greenpeace Fund Inc. The pipeline company is seeking hundreds of millions of dollars in damages.
The lawsuit stems from protests in 2016 and 2017 of the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline and its Missouri River crossing upstream of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s reservation.
Trey Cox, an attorney for the pipeline company, previously said Greenpeace “planned, organized and funded a game plan to stop construction” of the pipeline, “whatever the cost.”
Cox also alleged Greenpeace paid outsiders to come into the area to protest, sent blockade supplies, organized or led protester trainings, passed “critical intel” to the protesters and told untrue statements to stop the line from being built.
Greenpeace representatives have said the lawsuit is an example of corporations abusing the legal system to go after critics and is a critical test of free speech and protest rights. An Energy Transfer spokesperson said the case is about Greenpeace not following the law, not free speech.
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Probably behind the damages to Tesla vehicles and dealerships as well. Nothing “green” or “peaceful” about a bunch of rioters. Contradictory thinking to try and ban petroleum then burn electric vehicles. I think these whackos riot just for the sake of rioting, they get a charge out of acting like vandals.
“I think these whackos riot just for the sake of rioting, they get a charge out of acting like vandals.”
Yep. That’s activists in a nutshell. Back when Obama became president, he had some organization recruiting “activists.” One of his recruits was a black weightlifter I knew. He described a training camp where they were trained how to start fights by getting into people’s faces and screaming at them. They had lawyers on standby. They were housed in quads like college students. He wasn’t a violent guy, but not very bright. When I described what might happen with people dying, he teared up. But he said, “It’s twenty dollars an hour. I’ve never made that much. I can’t say no.”
I think Obama was still calling the shots through Biden’s presidency. The “autopen” signatures are very interesting. Need to know who was really behind those.
With USAID now gone, groups like Greenpeace have lost their backstop and can now, maybe, be sued out of business.
One of Obama’s lieutenants. Obama doesn’t get his hands dirty…
THE ENTIRE W H STAFF
There's a difference between "critics" and "terrorists".
That’s some claim by a Commie front group that has abused the hell out of the legal system for decades. Screw Greenpeace.
The Tesla sabotage is plainly Astroturfed Antifa-ish gaslighting and so too the ‘spontaneous’ disruptors at Red State Town Halls which the legacy media excitedly trumpet, Mockingbird-like.
Need to know exactly who, when, and where. Then nail them.
Right, but someone is the bottom line and the bottom line is Obummers legacy. Even though he gets someone else to do the dirty work, his hands are dirty. I hope I live long enough to see these bastards pay for what they have done to this country. Biden will probably croak before I do, but I would still like to see Obummer go down.
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