US courtroom: Greenpeace should pay 345 million to Energy Transfer | EUROtoday

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A decide within the US state of North Dakota right this moment made official the sentence in opposition to Greenpeace which must pay 345 million {dollars} in damages and curiosity to the Energy Transfer firm, the operator of an oil pipeline which it had opposed. This was reported by AFP. This choice represents a tough blow for the environmentalist affiliation concerned within the battle in opposition to local weather change, which on this matter denounced the will of a US operator within the hydrocarbon sector to “silence it” by sending it into destroy.

The ruling concludes a years-long authorized case that pitted the environmental group in opposition to the Energy Transfer firm. Greenpeace has already contested that it doesn’t have the funds to pay.