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Amongst the many idiotic things that Climate Morons do, fighting pipelines is particulary dumb, even for them. The alternative ways to transport fuel are much dirtier, and the fuel will be moved.

We'll see if this stands, but this is a good thing.

Greenpeace Loses a $667 Million Verdict
A North Dakota jury finds the group defamed Energy Transfer LP.
By
The Editorial Board
March 21, 2025 5:48 pm ET

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 that Greenpeace defamed the company and abetted vandals. Its organizers trained protesters and even brought lockboxes they used to chain themselves to construction equipment. Protesters lobbed human feces and burning logs at security officers and vandalized construction equipment.

Greenpeace sought to get the pipeline’s financiers to pull out of the project by erroneously claiming the company’s “personnel deliberately desecrated documented burial grounds and other culturally important sites,” among other falsehoods. Energy Transfer said this malicious campaign delayed the pipeline’s construction and increased its costs by hundreds of millions of dollars.

Greenpeace’s defense? Not our fault since it didn’t expressly order the vandalism even if it did train protesters. But even Greenpeace USA’s then executive director boasted it had played a “massive role” in the protests. The jury agreed.

The left-wing group says the lawsuit is retribution for exercising its First Amendment speech and protest rights. But there’s no First Amendment right to defame or destroy. If the verdict deters other self-righteous outfits from aiding violent protests, including those against Israel, so much the better.