A jury in the United States has ordered the green pipeline operator Energy Transfer to compensate hundreds of billions of dollars in the case filed by the oil pipeline operator Energy Transfer and raised concerns about serious free speech.
A group of environmental lawyers appealed on Wednesday, who came up for almost a decade after the activists filed a protest against the protest. Standing Rock Cyox Tribe Contrary Dakota access pipelineOne of the largest anti -fossil fuel protests in the history of the United States.
The jury at North Dakota paid more than $ 660m in the three greenpiece components.
B 64 billion Texas-based company Energy Transfer celebrated the result and has denied the attempt to reduce speech.
The company said in a statement that “we want to thank the judge and jury that they have done the incredible time and hard work they have dedicated to the lawsuit,” the company said in a statement.
“We are happy to be responsible for their actions, but this victory is truly for the people of Mandan and the whole northern Dakota who were caused by everyday persecution and interruptions due to the condemnations by the greenpill and training.”
The nine-person Juri from Manda in North Dakota thought of two days, in the case of the late February, before searching in favor of the energy transfer on the majority of the measurements.
However, a group of lawyers observing the lawsuit of the lawsuette to address the lawsuit of the lawsuit, said a group of lawyers, who are related to the fossil fuel industry of many jurors.
“Most of the judges in this case have been associated with the oil and gas industry and some openly confessed that they cannot be impartial, even though the judges still have them,” the committee said in a statement after the jury selection.
Greenpeas plans to appeal this decision. Greenpice is resisting energy transfer to International Netherlands and accused the company of using a nuisance case to suppress dissatisfaction. The hearing in that case was fixed on July 2.
“The fight against big oil has not ended today.”
“We know that the law and truth are in your favor.”
‘Water Protectors’ of Standing Rock’
The prosecution of the energy transfer against greenpiece is a protest in North Dakota almost 10 years ago.
In April 1 In, Standing Rock Cyox Tribes Set up the protest camp Call yourself on the proposed Dakota access pipeline route to stop the construction “Water Proteters”.
The camp continued for more than a year, from other tribals across the country and then the support of other activists, including environmental organizations like Greenpeas and then other workers. Hundreds of American military veterans??
Although the Winter terms sat down and hundreds of police patrolled the protest with the waves of violent arrest. Target journalistSieox and their supporters stayed in the place.
According to the North Dakota Monitor, in the role of the Energy Transfer Trex Cox, the role of the Greenperes includes the “exploitation” of the Standing Rock Siex tribe to bring forward the anti -fossil fuel agenda.
But Greenpes said that the movement had only a small and peaceful role, saying that the native American people were.
As an organizer of Lakota, Nick Tillesen testified during the test, the idea of the Greenpeys organized the protest, according to Lakota Times.
Despite the protest, the pipeline designed to transport the frauded crude oil refineries and to the global markets was implemented in 2017.
Energy transfer, however, continued the legal pursuit of greenpieces, initially looking for a loss of $ 300 million through the federal case, which was rejected.
He then converted his legal strategy to the state court of the North Dakota, one of the US minorities without protection against the so -called “public participation” (STAPP).
‘Drill, baby drill’
Wednesday’s result for the fossil fuel industry is another victory, as President Donald Trump has promised to open the US for fossil fuel expansion. The removal of air and water Protection.
In the legal battle over the years, it is often clear about the billionaires of the billionaires of the energy transfer, Kelky Warren, the chief donor of Trump, his inspiration.
His “primary purpose” to file a claim on Greenpes, he said that he was not only financial compensation but also “sending messages.”
Warren went so far that activists should “remove the gene from the lake”.
The critic is called a textbook slap designed to calm dissatisfaction and remove financial resources in this case.
This happens as the Trump administration is trying to take extensive action on freedom of expression across the country.
In a post to respond to Wednesday’s decision on Wednesday, writer and journalist Naomi Clean noted that various movements, including “climate, Palestine, workers, migrants, trans and reproduction rights” should be viewed as “attacks on protests and freedom attacks”.
Clan further said, “Fossil fuel companies should be forced to compensate for public trillions for the prices of planets.”
Meanwhile, climate change is contributing to the growing acute and frequent disasters in the US and the world, including A recent fire in CaliforniaAnd one Unprecedented inland cyclone In North Carolina.
Standing Rock Cyox Tribes filed a new case against the US Army Corporation of Engineers last October, in which the pipeline was illegally operating and according to North Dakota’s monitor, arguing that the pipeline is illegally operating and needed to close.