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Greenpeace ordered to pay hundreds of millions in damages to oil firm

BBC.com · last updated

A North Dakota jury has found Greenpeace liable for defamation, ordering it to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in damages to a Texas-based oil company.

Energy Transfer sued the environmental group over protests nearly a decade ago against the Dakota Access Pipeline.

The lawsuit, filed in state court, accused Greenpeace of an “unlawful and violent scheme to cause financial harm to Energy Transfer”.

Greenpeace had warned it could be forced into bankruptcy if it was ordered to pay around $300m (£237m) in claimed damages.

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