USA: Greenpeace condemned Greenpeace to a number of hundred million {dollars} compensation | EUROtoday

The environmental safety group Greenpeace was sentenced to the operator of an oil pipeline on Wednesday by a court docket within the US state of North Dakota to pay a number of hundred million {dollars}. This was introduced by a spokeswoman for the AFP information company’s non -governmental group. The pipeline operator Energy Transfer had sued Greenpeace for protests in opposition to the pipeline, which leads by means of areas of Sioux tribes. Energy Transfer had accused the environmental safety group a violent and defamatory marketing campaign.

Greenpeace criticized that the court docket proceedings are used to “silence” the group. It is within the lawsuit about claims of $ 300 million.

When requested whether or not such a sum may imply the break of Greenpeace within the United States, lawyer Deepa Padmanabha stated that the subsequent steps need to be mentioned first. However, she instructed that the group ought to make an attraction. “We know that this fight is not over yet,” stated Padmanabha.

The nearly 1900 -kilometer Dakota Access Pipeline was put into operation in 2017. It connects oil fields within the state of North Dakota with a distribution middle within the state of Illinois. In his first time period in workplace, US President Donald Trump had given the inexperienced mild for the commissioning of the pipeline. The venture was on ice beneath his predecessor Barack Obama.

The trunk of the Standing Rock Sioux and the neighboring tribe of the Cheyenne River Sioux, which have holy websites within the space, had legally in opposition to the pipeline. They not solely denounced the nation’s publicity, but in addition feared that consuming water may very well be contaminated by leaking on the road. The pipeline leads, amongst different issues, by means of a lake.