Greenpeace says its future is threatened by Texas pipeline company's lawsuit

[TexasTowelie]

After years of operating the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline, Texas-based Energy Transfer is taking Greenpeace to court in a case that the U.S. affiliate of the environmental group says could bring financial ruin.

At the center of the lawsuit are 2016 and 2017 protests against a part of the pipeline route at a Missouri River crossing north of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota. Members of the tribe said the route threatened their primary water source and sacred sites, and that they weren't consulted about it. Hundreds were arrested throughout the demonstrations, including during especially aggressive law enforcement action in which police descended on protesters with pepper spray and armored vehicles.

The Dakota Access Pipeline was eventually finished and has transported oil since June 2017.

Energy Transfer and its subsidiary Dakota Access later alleged Greenpeace International and Greenpeace USA took part in trespassing, nuisance and defamation in a lawsuit filed in North Dakota state court in 2019. Energy Transfer is suing for $300 million.

Read more: https://www.chron.com/culture/article/greenpeace-energy-transfer-lawsuit-20184706.php

[NNadir]

1. I have never been a fan of Greenpeace. I would think, however, the fossil fuel industry would be pleased...

...with them.

Their appeal to antinuclear dogma, fear and ignorance, kept the fossil fuel industry alive and strong, at the subsidiary cost of the destruction of the planetary atmosphere, the conversions of large stretches of virgin wilderness into industrial parks for solar and wind junk that will be landfill in 25 years, and made mining interests happy.

I'm not convinced that the dangerous fossil fuel industry sees it that way, but with a little creative thinking, one can so see it.

[hunter]

2. Greenpeace is one of those donation funded organizations that exists mostly to perpetuate itself.

The Union of Concerned Scientists is another.

If an environmental issue is important to you, especially a local issue, put yourself and your money directly into the battle.

I appreciate the trouble these feckless white saviors are in, and agree it's unfair, but I'm not sending them any money. There are many more effective environmental and social justice organizations deserving of my time, energy, and money.