A pivotal trial is opened on the surrounding pipeline to the besieged Dakota today, which can have severe consequences for protests in the United States and the future of the Greenpece.
The Standing Rock Sioux and more than 500 other tribes protested the development of the pipeline alongside the demonstrators who joined all over the United States nearly a decade. Legal battles are still under implementation, even after oil began to flow through the pipeline that extends from North Dakota to Illinois in 2017.
The company that runs Dakota Access, the transfer of energy, sues Greenpeace for $ 300 million in a lawsuit that will last for this week. Power transfer claims Greenpeace supported “illegal demonstrators” and destroying property to stop construction. It also claims that the organization has published wrong information about the company and learn about the impact of the pipeline on the environment and the cultural sites of the public and banks that finance the project.
“This directly affects everyone, not just permanent rocks, not just green peace.”
The payment of this amount of damage will be the equivalent of about 10 times the annual budget of Greenpeace USA, according to the organization. “If we lose, Greenpeace USA may have financial ruin, and more than 50 years of environmental activity ends,” Its website says.
The Green Group says it has become a target for one of the largest SLAPP suits on books, in a sign
Strategic cases against public participation aim to deter civil work. Popular activists from Standing Rock says that the lawsuit is a threat to freedom of expression in all fields, and that the lights on green peace distracts a movement led by indigenous demonstrators instead of any external environmental organization.
“Freedom of expression is at stake,” says Wawayya Locke, a member of Standing Rock Grassroots. “This directly affects everyone, not just permanent rocks, not just green peace.”
Greenpeace received support from more than 400 different organizations and some celebrities including Billie Eilish, Jane Fonda and SUSAN SARANDON which has recently been Open message To transfer energy. The letter says that the lawsuit is trying to hold the green peace of the measures taken by unbelievers and “attempts to rewrite the history of the opposition-led opposition movement in Standing Rock- through a ridiculous leadership that Greenpeace has organized the entire resistance.” The message warns that the issue may have a chilling effect on the peaceful protest.
“A lawsuit against Greenpeace revolves around them. It does not follow the law. It is not a matter of freedom of expression because they are trying to claim. Jeff Chesizen, a spokesman for energy transmission in an email, said“ We support the rights of all Americans to express their opinions freedom.
Given that the company has achieved more than $ 82 billion of revenues last year and is seeking to obtain an amount of damage that would be devastating to the green thickness, but it is not important to the company, “an instinct here is that this is a Slapp suit, a law professor at the University of Pies, NPR tells. “Their real interest is the continued protest – the way in which public opinion can be transformed.”
Federal to reject “The facts do not change.” Says Rolf Scar, director of national campaigns at Greenpece USA: “The facts do not change.” “They are asking for money that we do not have, and they do not need it, for a pipeline that already works and reaps them when they filed a preliminary lawsuit. So this is about our silence.” The trial is scheduled to end on March 27.
