The Environmental Peace Group has been requested by a Northern Dakota The jury to pay more than 660 million dollars regarding the protests against building the oil pipeline in Dakota.
Dakota Access in Dakota accused Dakota, based in Dallas, Greenpeace International, Greenpeace Usa, and ARM Greenpece Fund Inc. financing. From defamation, infringement, annoying, civil plot and other works.
Greenpeace usa was I found a responsible For all charges, while others were found responsible for some. The damages due in different quantities will be published on the three entities.
Green peace representatives speak with correspondents on Wednesday outside the Morton Provincial Court in Mandan, and. (AP Photo/Jack Dura)
In a press release, Greenpeace described the lawsuit as “useless”.
“This issue should be alerted to everyone, regardless of their political tendencies,” said Sushma Raman, Greenpece Inc, Greenpeace Fund. “It is part of a renewed batch by companies to arm our courts to silence opposition.
Members of the Greenpeace press conference next to a giant artistic installation called the “Permanent Plastic Machine” before the global plastic treaty talks on Saturday, May 27, 2023, in Paris. (Photo/aurelien Morissard)
Greenpeace said earlier that a big prize for the pipeline company will aim to bankrupt the organization. After the verdict, Diba Badmanab, the chief legal advisor in Greenpes, said that the group's work “will never stop.”
“This is the really important message today, and we only go out and we will meet together and discover what our next steps are,” she said outside the court.
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In this photo on December 1, 2016, the Oakti Sakin camp where people gather to protest on the Dakota Oil pipeline in the background, where children swayed hill in the cannon, ND (AP Photo/David Goldman)
The organization said it was planning to appeal the decision.
Transmission On Wednesday's referee, he called for “Americans who understand the difference between the right to freedom of expression and break the law.”
The company said in a statement to Associated Press.
The demonstrators who appear against the expansion of the Dakota Wid's pipeline in the waters of Cold Crick are facing the local police, near Cannon Ball, ND, November 2, 2016. (AP Photo/John L. Mone)
The company said that the lawsuit was not related to freedom of expression, but instead, for demonstrators who do not follow the law.
The issue stems from the protests in 2016 and 2017 against the country's multi -state oil pipeline. The Stand Rock Six tribe opposed the project, saying that it pose a threat to water supply and imposed damage on their lands.
Thousands of demonstrators camp for several months near the Standing Rock Reserve, where the pipeline crosses the lower Missouri River.
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The pipeline transports about 5 % of daily oil production in the United States. He – she I started transporting oil In mid -2017.
Freedom of expression and Environmental defenders The trial criticized, saying that the lawsuit was about to silence the protest and aims to bankrupt the opponents.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
