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Dakota Access Pipeline Developer Outlines Damage Claims, Rests Case Against Greenpeace

By Bill Dubensky Mar 11, 2025 | 6:09 AM

Morton County deputies respond.  (Morton County Sheriff’s Office photo via the North Dakota Monitor)

 

 

(By: North Dakota Monitor) – The $300 million trial between Dakota Access Pipeline developer and Greenpeace reached the halfway mark on Monday as the company wrapped up its side of the case.

Energy Transfer claims Greenpeace aided and abetted criminal behavior by protesters during demonstrations against the pipeline in 2016 and 2017, and deliberately defamed the company to pressure banks to pull their financing for the project.

Greenpeace denies all of Energy Transfer’s claims and has called the lawsuit a veiled effort to chill environmental advocacy.

Among the slew of witnesses called by Energy Transfer were three experts who testified the company incurred up to about $265 million in additional expenses as a result of the anti-Dakota Access Pipeline movement.

The experts said they weren’t on the stand to prove Greenpeace caused those losses, but to provide an analysis of the company’s own financial records.

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