(Mandan, ND) — Greenpeace is being ordered to pay 660-million dollars to a Texas company over its involvement in the Dakota pipeline protests. A jury at a civil trial in North Dakota on Wednesday decided that the environmental group is liable for defamation and for orchestrating criminal behavior at the protests held nearly ten years ago on the Standing Rock Reservation. Texas pipeline company Energy Transfer Partners successfully argued that Greenpeace incited people to protest by using a “misinformation campaign.” Greenpeace had denied the claims, and said the lawsuit was aimed at “destroying the right to peaceful protest.”
