Greenpeace’s 2016 and 2017 protest campaign against Energy Transfer’s Dakota Access Pipeline was one of the group’s most celebrated and popular initiatives. Nine years later, that very crusade has brought the legacy green group to its knees.
A North Dakota jury ruled March 19 that Greenpeace is liable for $667 million in damages payable to Energy Transfer, the developer of the Dakota Access Pipeline and target of the group’s organized activism in 2016 and 2017. Led by Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP’s Trey Cox, Energy Transfer has Greenpeace on the verge of having to shutter its U.S. operations thanks to the protests that supporters once hailed as a heroic stand against the oil industry and the first Trump administration, as Cox explained to the DCNF. (RELATED: ‘Spoiled Brats’: Greenpeace Co-Founder Supports Pipeline Tycoon’s Campaign To Punish His Old Group)
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