US justice
Greenpeace sentenced to millions of damage in the United States
Updated on March 20, 2025 – 01:22Reading time: 2 min.
For a long time, a controversial oil pipeline in the USA made headlines and protests. Years later, there is now a sensational judgment.
The Environmental Organization Greenpeace has been sentenced to a compensation in the United States in a three -digit millions. A jury jury in the US state of North Dakota decided that the organization was liable for defamation and other allegations in connection with protests against a controversial oil pipeline several years ago. Greenpeace himself announced that several units of the organization had been sentenced to a payment of more than $ 660 million (more than 605 million euros).
This is about the Pipeline Dakota Access, which runs from the state of North Dakota on the northern border of the United States to the state of Illinois in the middle west. It has been in operation since 2017. The background of the lawsuit against Greenpeace are months -long protests against the pipeline in 2016 and 2017, in which the organization took part.
In the process, the operating company had accused the environmental organization of having spread protests and spreading defamatory statements about the pipeline, which caused economic damage. Greenpeace rejected this and evaluated the jury’s decision now fallen as an attack on freedom of demonstration. The organization announced that the fight against the lawsuit was not over: “We will not give in. We will not be silent.”
The trunk of the Standing Rock Sioux had fought out against the pipeline for years – and received support from many sides in protests. The tube runs along a reserve of the indigenous people, which is why they and environmentalists fear water pollution and the impairment of sacred sites. Former President Barack Obama had temporarily ordered the construction work, while his successor Donald Trump had campaigned for the completion of the pipeline. Trump has been in office again since January.
