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A jury in North Dakota has decided that the environmental group Greenpeace must pay hundreds of millions of dollars to the pipeline company Energy Transfer and is liable for defamation and other claims over protests in the state nearly a decade ago.

 

Greenpeace must pay at least $660m over Dakota pipeline protests, says jury

Non-profit, which will appeal decision, says lawsuits like this are aimed at ‘destroying the right to peaceful protest’

 

Energy Transfer Partners, a Dallas-based oil and gas company worth almost $70bn, had sued Greenpeace, alleging defamation and orchestrating criminal behavior by protesters at the Dakota Access pipeline in 2016 and 2017, claiming the organization “incited” people to protest by using a “misinformation campaign”.

 

Greenpeace, which had denied the claims, said in a statement after the verdict that lawsuits like this were aimed at “destroying the right to peaceful protest”; constitutional rights experts had expressed fears that the case could have a wider chilling effect on free speech.

 

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/greenpeace-lawsuit-energy-transfer-dakota-pipeline

 

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         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.

in the UK...

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch today ditched her party’s commitment to the UK’s flagship climate target in a speech hosted by an advertising group that works for Shell, DeSmog can reveal.

During her address, Badenoch suggested that we are “bankrupting ourselves” in the pursuit of reaching net zero emissions by 2050. She said that the country should still seek to reduce its climate impact, but shouldn’t set a date for achieving net zero.

Badenoch said that Britain has “the highest electricity bills in the developed world” – which is caused by expensive gas prices rather than the cost of renewables – and claimed that the UK is “only responsible for 1 percent of global emissions”. In reality, taking into account its colonial history, the UK is responsible for more than five times this figure.

The Tory leader, who has received recent donations from fossil fuel interests and climate science deniers, made her speech at the Havas Village in King’s Cross, London, and was introduced by H/Advisors CEO Neil Bennett.

H/Advisors is owned by Havas – one of the world’s largest public relations and advertising agencies, based in France. Bennett said he was “delighted” to welcome Badenoch to the Havas campus for her speech, to ensure the company stays “at the heart of public debate”.

In September 2023, news broke that Havas had won a major Shell advertising contract – a move condemned by climate campaigners.

https://www.desmog.com/2025/03/18/kemi-badenoch-made-anti-net-zero-speech-at-shell-ad-agency-havas/

 

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         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.