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Pipeline Developer asks North Dakota Judge to Halt Greenpeace Lawsuit in Europe

By Bill Dubensky Jul 27, 2025 | 9:57 AM

Energy Transfer attorney Trey Cox, center. (Amy Dalrymple/North Dakota Monitor)

 

(North Dakota Monitor) – The developer of the Dakota Access Pipeline has asked a North Dakota judge to stop Greenpeace from counter-suing it in the Netherlands.

Energy Transfer said that Greenpeace is trying to undermine a March jury verdict that ordered the environmental group to pay the company more than $660 million, finding it responsible for defamation and inciting illegal behavior by anti-pipeline protesters. Greenpeace supported the protests started by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in 2016 against the pipeline’s construction.

Greenpeace denies Energy Transfer’s allegations, and has accused the company of bringing the lawsuit solely out of a desire to punish the environmental group for opposing the pipeline project.

Energy Transfer’s lawsuit is against three Greenpeace entities: Greenpeace International, Greenpeace USA and Greenpeace Fund, its U.S. fundraising arm. Not long before the North Dakota lawsuit went to trial, the Netherlands-based Greenpeace International filed its own lawsuit against Energy Transfer in a Dutch court, arguing Energy Transfer’s legal challenge violated its rights.

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