Judge-Ordered $345 Million Payment Could Bankrupt Greenpeace

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Judge-Ordered $345 Million Payment Could Bankrupt Greenpeace
26 Feb 2026
A judge is expected to order Greenpeace to pay a $345 million judgment, which will (hopefully) bankrupt the extremist environmental organization.

Greenpeace is expected to appeal the ruling.

Last year, a jury awarded Energy Transfer $660 million against Greenpeace. The judge felt that was too high and halved the award. Energy Transfer intends to file an appeal seeking the full $660 million.

Breitbart News reported on the lawsuit last year, which surrounds the protests around the Dakota Access Pipeline:

Energy Transfer is the Texas-based pipeline company behind the Dakota Access Pipeline, which suffered through Greenpeace’s months long protests against the pipeline about ten years ago.

The suit accused Greenpeace of defamation, trespassing, physical damages to the pipeline and equipment, and overall (and unceasing) harassment that caused expensive delays.

Energy Transfer’s lawyer, Trey Cox, “laced into Greenpeace during closing arguments on Monday,” reports the far-left New York Times. “The company accused Greenpeace of funding and supporting attacks and protests that delayed the pipeline’s construction, raised costs, and harmed Energy Transfer’s reputation.”

The $4 billion Dakota Access Pipeline has been up and running since 2017. It is 1,172-miles long and capable of delivering 750,000 barrels per day.

If you recall the news during the protests, the harassment campaign against this project was relentless. There are still lawsuits pending to shut it down. One judge ordered it shut down and emptied of oil. An appeals court put a stop to that.

These people are crazy. In nearly ten years of operation, there have been no reported environmental accidents associated with the pipeline. What’s more, a pipeline is the safest and most environmentally sound way to transport oil. The alternative is shipping all this oil by train, which not only invites accidents, but even when there’s no accident, you have the emissions from the train going into the air.

It’s important to remember that today’s environmentalists do not care about the environment. Instead, they are anti-human Luddites and communists opposed to Western Civilization and desperate to use the environment to emotionally blackmail the populace into reverting to the Stone Age. Naturally, our gilded communist leaders won’t live in the Stone Age. Theirs will be a life of mansions, yachts, and air conditioning. https://www.breitbart.com/environment/2026/02/26/nolte-judge-ordered-345-million-payment-could-bankrupt-greenpeace/

[Smokin Joe]

I hope the State of North Dakota is in on this. The cleanup after the "Water Protectors" left the site (finally) involved the removal of 720 semi loads of trash and debris, the recovery of a body, repairs to a bridge, to name a few things. That doesn't count the million dollars damages to livestock and farms nearby, nor the expenses incurred in damaged construction equipment.

To this day, I will not watch a show with Jennifer Lawrence in it, just like Hanoi Jane.

[DefiantMassRINO]

Greenpeace was engaged in racketeering, not protest.

[Smokin Joe]

Greenpeace was engaged in racketeering, not protest.

What started as a beef between the Tribe and the pipeline company over (as I heard it) the tribe changing it's price for an easement (tripled it) and the pipeline company saying "For that much we can go around tribal lands and have change left over"--and then doing just that, leaving the tribe with no deal, no easement to lease, and no money, got to be national news when Greenpeace, et. al. got involved and tried to pressure everyone into revoking permits and shutting the pipeline down. At least half the oil that leaves the State goes out on that pipeline, and the rest, mostly by rail. At the time, it seemed the oil was at fault for railway accidents in Carrington, ND, Virginia, and IIRC, Washington State, which were brayed about in the headlines nationally.

Considering the State of ND extracts an 11.5% tax on every barrel of oil produced, anything that interferes with that costs everyone in the State in the form of lost tax revenue. For those of us in the upstream oil industry, the discounts on ND Sweet crude due to transport costs were affecting the drilling and production operations, too, as the ROI was suffering. All because a bunch of latter day hippies wanted to have a winter camp on a flood plain and protest.
All their misbehaviour cost the State, in not just lost revenue, but Law Enforcement costs, damage to roads and a highway bridge.

Three active pipelines were tampered with during the protests (Those idiots were caught and prosecuted; pipeline operators were paying attention and shut down operations before there was a catastrophe).

So, as far as I am concerned, any outfit backing those protests can pick up the tab.