Via Committee to Unleash Prosperity: Maybe they’ll win on appeal or reach a settlement. Maybe. But if this judgment for their outrageous, unlawful obstruction of the Dakota Access Pipeline stands and puts Greenpeace out of its misery, it will be richly deserved. How wonderfully appropriate that an organization whose mission for decades has been to bankrupt private companies may be going bankrupt itself.
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AP: Judge says he will order Greenpeace to pay an expected $345 million in oil pipeline protest case
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A North Dakota judge has said he will order Greenpeace to pay damages expected to total $345 million in connection with protests against the Dakota Access oil pipeline from nearly a decade ago, a figure the environmental group contends it cannot pay.
In court papers filed Tuesday, Judge James Gion said he would sign an order requiring several Greenpeace entities to pay the judgment to pipeline company Energy Transfer. He set that amount at $345 million last year in a decision that reduced a jury’s damages by about half, but his latest filing didn’t specify a final amount.
The long-awaited order is expected to launch an appeal process in the North Dakota Supreme Court from both sides.
