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The company that built the disputed Dakota Access oil pipeline filed a lawsuit against Greenpeace and other groups on Tuesday, alleging that they disseminated false and misleading information about the project and interfered with its construction.
In its lawsuit, which was filed in federal court in North Dakota, Texas-based Energy Transfer Partners requests damages that could approach $1 billion.
The company alleges that the groups' actions interfered with its business, facilitated crimes and acts of terrorism, incited violence, targeted financial institutions that backed the project and violated racketeering and defamation laws. The company seeks a trial and monetary damages, noting that disruptions to construction alone cost it at least $300 million and requesting triple damages.
The group of defendants "is comprised of rogue environmental groups and militant individuals who employ a pattern of criminal activity and a campaign of misinformation for purposes of increasing donations and advancing their political or business agendas," the company said in a statement.
Greenpeace attorney Tom Wetterer said the lawsuit is "meritless" and part of "a pattern of harassment by corporate bullies."
The lawsuit is "not designed to seek justice, but to silence free speech through expensive, time-consuming litigation," Wetterer said.
(Score: 2) by captain normal on Friday August 25 2017, @06:04PM
"...group of rogues, criminals, and eco-terrorists who engage in a pattern of criminal conspiracy that goes back for decades, who believe that "the ends justify the means." Even if they think nice things about the environment from time to time, that doesn't mean that the criminal and even violent things they do are *also* nice thoughts. Some things can be good while other, different things can be bad at the same time."
The same could very well be said about Energy Transfer Partners and the whole petrol energy gang of big oil and energy.
"It is easier to fool someone than it is to convince them that they have been fooled" Mark Twain