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Greenpeace asks North Dakota Supreme Court to Move Dakota Access Pipeline Trial to Fargo

By Bill Dubensky Mar 2, 2025 | 8:53 AM

Exterior of the Morton County Courthouse in Mandan. (Michael Achterling/North Dakota Monitor)

 

( By: . North Dakota Monitor) – Greenpeace has asked the North Dakota Supreme Court to move its Dakota Access Pipeline defamation case out of Morton County, arguing the jury is incapable of rendering a fair verdict.

The request is the culmination of multiple unsuccessful attempts to convince Southwest Judicial District Judge James Gion that Morton County is the wrong venue for the lawsuit.

The case concerns Greenpeace’s involvement in the protests against the pipeline in 2016 and 2017, which took place in Morton County roughly 40 miles south of Mandan and near the Standing Rock Reservation.

Energy Transfer accuses Greenpeace of backing unlawful and destructive behavior by protesters and spreading lies about the pipeline. As a result, construction of the pipeline was delayed for months and a group of banks pulled their funding for the project, the company claims.

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