Greenpeace’s Judgment for Oil Dakota Access Pipeline in Northern Dakota – Faced with fines

Nearly ten years after the major mobilizations in the United States against the Dakota Access Pipeline plan in northern Dakota, the Non -Governmental Environmental Organization Greenpeace is being tried by the Energy Transfer group for motivation and defamation. The trial begins tomorrow in Mandan, North Dakota and, if convicted, he may face a fine of $ 300 million. “If Energy Transfer achieves high compensation at Greenpeace, this will encourage other businesses to take similar actions to justice and significantly discourage protest movements,” warns Michael Gerrard, a professor of law at Columbia University. trial that will take five weeks. At the center of this court dispute, the 2016-2017 demonstrations in Northern Dakota against the Energy Transfer Dakota Access Pipeline plan for the construction of a oil station, which would pass through the land of the indigenous race of Standing Rock and by the Standing Rock and by the Standing Rock. sacred places threatening and […]
Source: News Beast

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