Greenpeace USA will protect its actions in Dakota access pipeline protests during a civil trial
The court of Texas Pipeline Company, which accuses Dakota Access Pipeline, is protests against the Dakota entry pipeline on Monday, while the organization of environmental lawyers threatens to free. to the rights of speech and its very future.
The trial complains about 2016 and 2017 through the intersection of the planned Missouri River of the oil pipeline above the reservation of the Rock Sioux tribe above. The one has long claimed that the pipeline threatens its water supply. Hundreds of people protested by the project have been arrested.
Energy transfer and its subsidiary Dakota Access insists on the accomplishment, displeasing, defamation and other crimes based on the Greenpeace International and its American branch, Greenpeace USA. US Dollar Legislation is also called Group Financing Arm, Greenpeace Fund Inc.
The jury trial, which took place in the ND State Court, is planned to take five weeks.
What are the details of the case?
Dallas-based energy transmission claims that the writing tried to postpone the construction of the pipeline, slandering companies behind it and a joint violation by the protesters. The trial is looking for millions of dollars in damages.
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Greenpeace International says should not be named in court, as it differs from two Greenpeace entities based on USA, and its employees do not participate in North Dakota or not involved Northern Dakota or were not involved in North Dakota.
Greenpeace USA said the plaintiffs could not support their requirements during the protests.
In February, the judge denied Greenpeace motions to drop or restrict the parts of the case.
What is the position of Greenpeace?
“If we lose, Greenpeace USA could be fined finally, completing more than 50 years of environmental activism,” the group said.
Representatives of the Environmental Organization claim that energy transfer simply wants to silence the oil industry critics.
“This trial of the future of the future, both freedom of speech and freedom of peace, is beyond the vibration of” Donald “. “In this case, our rights and freedoms could endanger our rights and freedoms for all of us, we journalists, protesters, or anyone who wants to engage in public discussions.”
Greenpeace USA helped support security and insulting in protests on safety and deprivation, Senior Legal Adviser Dearta Padmanabha said.
The energy transfer argues that “someone who protests must be responsible for each person's actions to protest,” said Padmanologist. “Thus, it is quite easy to see how, if successful, such tactics can have a serious freezing effect on anyone who can think of protest.”
Earlier in February, Greenpeace International vs. Activities in the Amsterdam Court, against energy transfer, saying that the company had made a mistake. In 2024, the European Union adopted the rules aimed at journalists, human rights activists and public guards against lawsuits, including resolving them.
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What does energy transfer say?
The energy transmission speaker says that the trial is about a written, which does not follow the law.
“It's not about free speech, because they are trying to demand. We support all Americans' rights to express their opinion and legally protest. This, “said Vicky Granado, Speaker of the Energy Transfer Speaker.
The company submitted such a case in the Federal Court in 2017.
The energy transfer was launched in 1996 with 20 employees and 320 km of natural gas pipelines. Today, 11,000 workers have more than 200,000 kilometers of pipelines and related facilities.
