Greenpeace, a whole bunch of thousands and thousands in Dakota pipeline to pay protesting protests -watts with that?

Source: Climate Depot (about the Guardian)

Well, well, it looks like Greenpeace finally has a foretaste of his own medicine. A jury in North Dakota has done the environmental favorite with an invoice for hundreds of millions who are to be paid to energy transmission partners, which are to be paid in Dallas, oil and gas titan behind the Dakota Access pipeline. This delicious judgment has announced today that the protests in 2016 and 2017 that stopped the pipeline and were not failed. The energy transmission claimed that Greenpeace's “misinformation campaign” called criminal fattening and smeared their good names, with 300 million US dollars being demanded. The jury? They ate it and in most cases stood up with the company. Ouch.

This was a long time ago. The energy transmission argued that Greenpeace not only failed from the sidelines, but whipped a frenzy that exceeded the legal limits. In the meantime, Greenpeace cries badly, clings to her pearls and insists that this lawsuit is a corporate penalty to “destroy the right to peaceful protest”. Constitutional rights experts also struggle and annoy themselves about a “frightening effect” on freedom of speaking. Boo-Hoo. The jury did not buy the SOB story and now Greenpeace is staring at a payout that her US outfit has only bankrupt. Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch.

Deepa Padmanabha, Senior Legal Adviser of Greenpeace, tried to turn it:

“What we saw in these three weeks was the obvious disregard for the voices of the standing Rock Sioux tribe. And while they also tried to distort the truth about the role of Greenpeace in the protests, we instead confirmed our unshakable commitment to the lack of violence in every action that we take.”

Nice attempt, Deepa, but the jury has looked through the holiness. The energy transmission even played a clever card and sued three Greenpeace companies as a large happy family – the checkmate.

So what is that taken with you? Is this a wonderful victory to hold activist groups to account when their antics go too far? They bet it is. Greenpeace had come and now they wind. Sure, you will complain about the over -control and appointment of companies until the cows come home, but for now we enjoy the moment. The Dakota Access Pipeline pumps oil for years despite its tantrums and this decision? It is the cherry above.

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