After nearly eight years, Dallas-based pipeline company Energy Transfer LP’s $300 million trial against Greenpeace USA is set to begin Monday in North Dakota.
Energy Transfer is accusing Greenpeace of defamation, disruptions and attacks against the Dakota Access Pipeline in 2016 and 2017.
The environmental group is being sued for $300 million in North Dakota by a pipeline company in a case that has become a flash point in the debate over free speech.
A series of complaints filed by Texas-based Energy Transfer over the 2016 Dakota pipeline protests is an attempt to stifle the environmental organization's work, Greenpeace argues.