Posted on 03/01/2026 10:59:58 AM PST by lowbridge
A North Dakota judge finalized a potentially fatal verdict against Greenpeace on Friday, affirming a $345 million jury award against the storied environmental group that Greenpeace has said may force it into bankruptcy in the United States.
The verdict was reached last year after a bruising trial brought by the pipeline company Energy Transfer over Greenpeace’s role in protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline, an 1,172-mile pipeline that carries oil from North Dakota to Illinois.
Energy Transfer claimed Greenpeace had played a major role in the protests a decade ago, forcing construction delays and costing the company money. Greenpeace has said that the lawsuit, which was argued last year in state court in Mandan, N.D., was baseless and designed to silence it, and that the verdict undermined free-speech rights in the United States.
“Speaking out against corporations that cause environmental harm should never be deemed unlawful,” said Marco Simons, interim general counsel at Greenpeace USA and Greenpeace Fund. “This is a setback, but the movement to defend people and the planet has always faced setbacks and resistance, and Energy Transfer will fail in its goal of silencing its critics.”
Greenpeace said it would seek a new trial and, if necessary, file an appeal to the North Dakota Supreme Court.
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The judge in the case, James Gion, had previously cut the jury award nearly in half, from roughly $670 million to about $345 million, split among three different Greenpeace entities.
On Tuesday, Judge Gion noted in court filings that the Greenpeace groups — two based in the United States and one in the Netherlands — had asked him to overturn or at least further reduce the verdict, which was much larger than expected. But he said he did not find reason to do so.
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I hope this starts a trend.
Winning!
I’m an old man and in all my life Greenpeace
has only reduced the quality of
life in my country.
I pray that they die before I do.
Once again, when lefties are violent it's free speech.
When righties talk, it's violence.
Greenpeace tries to make it about free speech.
It’s not.
It’s about physically obstructing enterprise construction.
When Greenpeace was founded, there were legitimate concerns. Over time, it has become a solid Leftist tool designed to help destroy the United States.
Greenpeace said it would seek a new trial.
Find a cash frendly judge?.
Cool, ET has been great for years. This is big for all players in energy.
Send the bill to Minneapolis non profits and colleges.
They were the ones who bussed activists to ND.
All that green going to oil gorporations...ought make them happy!
Maybe Greenpeace can get George Soros to float them a loan? He loves to fund subversives wherever he can. And 345 million is chump change for him.
Egad, that headline...
Don’t forget that “Silence is violence” too!
PAY UP HIPPIES!
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