Greenpeace must pay the pipeline company $ 660 million in the protests, and the jury found the jury

Environmental Greenpeace Group should pay more than $ 660 million as compensation for defamation and other claims made by a pipeline company regarding protests on building a Dakota Access pipeline in North Dakota.

DAACOSASS, based in Dallas Dakota, has accused Greenpeace International, Greenpeace USA, and ARM Greenpece Fund Inc. financing. Apporalization, infringement, civil conspiracy and other works.

Greenpeace USa is found responsible for all charges, while others were found responsible for some. The damages due in different quantities will be published on the three entities.

The transfer of energy on Wednesday called “victory” to “Americans who understand the difference between the right to freedom of expression and break the law.”

Greenpeace said earlier that a big prize for the pipeline company will aim to bankrupt the organization.

In the wake of the nine jury’s ruling, the chief legal adviser to Greenpeace said that the group’s work “will never stop.”

“This is the really important message today, and we are just going out, and we will meet together and discover what our next steps are,” Deba Badmanab told reporters outside the court.

The organization later said it was planning to appeal the decision.

“Control of the battle against large oil is not over today,” said Christine Casper, General Adviser to Greenpes International. “We know that the law and the truth beside us.”

Casper said that the group will witness the transfer of energy in the court in July in Amsterdam in a lawsuit against the discrimination submitted there last month.

These allegations were against Greenpeace

The case is back to the protests in 2016 and 2017 against the Dakota pipeline to reach the Missouri River, which crosses the source of the reservation of the rock rock tribe. For years, the tribe opposed the line as a danger to water supply.

The multi -state pipeline transports about five percent of daily oil production in the United States. The transportation of oil began in mid -2017.

Energy Transfer Lawyer Try Cox said that Greenpeace has carried out a plan to stop the construction of the pipeline. During the opening data, he claimed that Greenpeace prompted strangers to enter the area and protest, sent the blockade supplies, training organized demonstrators or bullets, and made incorrect data about the project to stop it.

Green peace entities lawyers said that there is no evidence of claims, and that green peace staff did not have little or non -involvement in protests, adding that organizations have nothing to do with the delays of transmission of energy in construction or re -financing.

Details of damage

The total damage is approximately $ 666.9 million ($ 958 million). The jury found that Greenpeace USA must pay the largest part of the damage, approximately $ 404 million ($ 580 million), while Greenpece Fund Inc. Greenpeace International will pay about $ 131 million ($ 188 million).

“We are pleased that Greenpis has been responsible for us, this victory is really dedicated to the people of Mandan and all over North Dakota who had to live through daily harassment and disturbances caused by the demonstrators who were funded and trained by Greenpeace.”