How Greenpeace’s Pipeline Protests Ultimately Led It To The Brink Of Bankruptcy –

 EXCLUSIVE: IJR   

"Specifically, activists linked to or trained by Greenpeace-paid protesters would cut wires, put sand in the gas tanks of various machines, vandalize equipment by painting over windows and more, Cox said. In effect, the hardline protesters would do “anything that they could do to stop the construction of this pipeline.' ”

Rich Terrell

"Greenpeace’s 2016 and 2017 protest campaign against Energy Transfer’s Dakota Access Pipeline was one of the group’s most celebrated and popular initiatives. Nine years later, that very crusade has brought the legacy green group to its knees.

"A North Dakota jury ruled March 19 that Greenpeace is liable for $667 million in damages payable to Energy Transfer, the developer of the Dakota Access Pipeline and target of the group’s organized activism in 2016 and 2017. Led by Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP’s Trey Cox, Energy Transfer has Greenpeace on the verge of having to shutter its U.S. operations thanks to the protests that supporters once hailed as a heroic stand against the oil industry and the first Trump administration, as Cox explained to the DCNF.

"A number of prominent officials and figures lined up behind the anti-pipeline activists as they disrupted construction, lending credibility and cover to the movement. Among them were the Democratic Socialists of America, Leonardo DiCaprio, Ben Affleck, Democratic Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey, the late Arizona Democratic Rep. Raul Grijalva as well as former Democratic Hawaii Rep. — and current Director of National Intelligence — Tulsi Gabbard, among others.

" ‘Anything That They Could’

"For starters, Cox said that Greenpeace’s branding of its involvement in the demonstrations as “indigenous-led” was misleading because the group brought in paid indigenous activists from outside North Dakota to participate in actions against the pipeline’s construction.

“ 'Greenpeace says they did this in solidarity with the indigenous tribe and that it was indigenous-led, but the tribe there is the Standing Rock Sioux. Greenpeace didn’t do anything with the Standing Rock Sioux,” Cox said. “Instead, they paid indigenous professional protesters from California and from Canada and from other locations to come. They flew them there. They paid them. They gave them a stipend to organize and train and teach people how to cause more problems and create more delay for the pipeline.” . . .