By Mandy Gunasekara | The Daily Caller With dangerous attacks on Tesla dealerships and college campuses in the news every day, it is alarming how many protesters believe that the First Amendment entitles them to freely destroy property and commit violent acts. But a recent jury decision in North Dakota may finally turn the tide against these extremists and…
By Nick Pope | The Daily Caller Greenpeace’s 2016 and 2017 protest campaign against Energy Transfer’s Dakota Access Pipeline was one of the group’s most celebrated and popular initiatives. Nine years later, that very crusade has brought the legacy green group to its knees. A North Dakota jury ruled March 19 that Greenpeace is liable for $667 million in…
By Michael Toth | National Law Review A jury in North Dakota recently ordered the environmental group Greenpeace to pay more than $660 million dollars in damages to a Texas-based energy company. While commentators have focused on Greenpeace’s tenuous future in the wake of the decision, the more important outcome is that the trial set an important…
By Wall Street Journal Editorial Board The environmental lobby Greenpeace is finally getting its just deserts after a North Dakota jury on Wednesday ordered it to pay $667 million in damages for its thuggish campaign last decade to block the Dakota Access Pipeline. Pipeline company Energy Transfer LP provided compelling evidence during a three-week trial…
Yesterday, a North Dakota jury found the environmentalist group Greenpeace liable for more than $660 in damages for its direct involvement during the Dakota Access Pipeline protests in 2016 and 2017. Showcasing paper trails of emails, expenses, and video footage, attorneys representing the pipeline argued that Greenpeace deployed a series of malign tactics that delayed…
BISMARCK, N.D. — U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) released the following statement after a jury in Mandan found Greenpeace liable for defamation for its involvement in the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) protests in Morton County in 2016-17. The case was brought by Energy Transfer, the DAPL parent company. “This is what justice looks like in…
Last Thursday, the Senate confirmed Doug Burgum as the new Secretary of the Interior. The former Governor of North Dakota, who was selected by President Trump to advance the administration’s energy abundance agenda, secured strong bipartisan support with a 79-18 vote. More than half of Senate Democrats joined all 53 Republicans in backing his nomination….
By Jeff Stier | washingtonexaminer.com As the Trump administration pursues a mission to develop America’s fossil fuel resources, people must unfortunately brace for the impending countermovements from environmental activists who increasingly deploy destructive tactics to gain attention and spread their message. While the Biden administration was largely friendly to environmental causes, it was not immune…
By Joe Buccino | realcleardefense.com American energy independence is under attack from a shadowy alliance that threatens the foundation of our national security and economic prosperity. On the surface, we see radical environmental activists interrupting corporate shareholder meetings, blocking traffic, and vandalizing artwork. But behind these increasingly aggressive protests lies a more insidious threat: the…
Greenpeace USA and a number of other environmental activist groups will be in the national spotlight next month for their alleged roles as primary financiers of the 2016-2017 Dakota Access Pipeline protests. In what former North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum called, “a disaster” for the state, the protests led to over $7.5 billion in economic…