Pipeline Developer Goes to North Dakota Supreme Court Seeking to Block Greenpeace Netherlands Lawsuit

(Photo by Kyle Martin/For the North Dakota Monitor)

(North Dakota Monitor) – A court case involving Greenpeace and the Dakota Access Pipeline developer went before the North Dakota Supreme Court  with justices asked to stop a counter-suit pending in the Netherlands.

Amsterdam-based Greenpeace International is a defendant in an ongoing lawsuit in North Dakota district court, where Energy Transfer accuses it and two other Greenpeace entities of conspiring to use unlawful tactics to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline from being built.

All three Greenpeace defendants deny the allegations and claim the case is a tactic to waste their time and money as punishment for opposing the pipeline.

This led Greenpeace International to counter-sue Energy Transfer in a Dutch court in February under a European Union directive that provides recourse to those targeted by frivolous lawsuits for exercising their free speech.