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The Greenpeace Environmental Group has been ordered Northern Dakota The jury paid more than $ 660 million due to protests against the construction of Dakota’s oil pipeline.
On the basis of Dallas, the transmission of energy and subsidiary of Dakota Access has accused the Netherlands Greenpeace International, Greenpeace USA and financing Fund Fund Greenpeace Fund Inc. Landing, violations, troubles, civil conspiracy and other actions.
Greenpeace USA was found liability For all calculations and the rest were recognized as responsible for some. Borrowed losses will be extended in various quantities in three economic entities.
Greenpeace representatives talk to journalists on Wednesday near Morton County County in Mandana, New York (AP Photo/Jack Dura)
In the Greenpeace Press -release, he called the “Without Merit” lawsuit.
“This case should alert everyone, regardless of their political inclinations,” said Sushma Roman, the Provisional Executive Director of Greenpeace Inc, the Greenpeace Foundation. “This is part of the new jolt corporations to arm our courts before silence dissent. We all need to be concerned about the future amendment, and such lawsuits as this, aimed at destroying our rights to peaceful protest and freedom of speech.”
Members of the Greenpeace press conference near a giant art installation called “Eternal Plastic Machine” ahead of the global plastic contracts on Saturday, May 27, 2023, in Paris. (Photo/Aurelien Morrisard)
Earlier, Greenpeace stated that a great reward for the pipeline threatened to go bankrupt. Following the verdict, the senior legal advisor to the Greenpia, Dipana, said the work of the group “never stopped”.
“This is a really important message today, and we just go out and we’re going to gather and find out what the following steps,” she said on the borders of the court building.
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In this photo on December 1, 2016, the Oceti Sakowin camp, where people gathered to protest against the Dakota Pipe Pipe (AP Photo/David Goldman)
The organization stated that it plans to appeal the decision.
Transfer energy He called the sentence on Wednesday the “victory” for “Americans who understand the difference between the right to free speech and the violation of the law.”
“While we are glad that Greenpeace is responsible for our actions against us, this victory is indeed designed for Mandan residents and all over the Northern Dakot, who had to survive the daily persecution and disruptions caused by the protesters who financed and trained Greenpeace,” the Associated Press company said.
Protesters demonstrating the Dakota Access Wade pipeline in Cold Creek Waters, facing local police near Cannon Ball, ND, November 2, 2016. (AP Photo/John L. Mone)
The company stated that there was no free speech in the lawsuit, but instead of protesters who did not comply with the law.
The case stems from the protests in 2016 and 2017 against the multi-state Dakoto oil pipeline. Sioux’s permanent rock tribe opposed this project, saying that it was at risk for its water supply and has damaged its land.
Thousands of participants of the rally were located for months near the reservation, where the pipeline crosses under the Missouri River.
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The pipeline transports about 5% of US oil production. It started transporting oil In mid -2017.
Freedom of speech and Proponents of the environment He criticized the lawsuit, saying that the lawsuit was a silence of protest and meant the bankrupt of the opponents.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
