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| Dakota Access Pipeline bulldozer at Standing Rock in 2016. |
The Circus is Coming to Town
It's the most bizarre lawsuit -- Energy Transfer v Greenpeace and Red Warrior Society, eight years later.
There are loads of documents hidden away with "confidential" stamps in the court records, and a whole lot of players -- governors, Congressmen, and law enforcement, in the shadows.
The fragments, between the blackouts of "redacted," show that the head of Energy Transfer is reluctant to answer questions in depositions.
Meanwhile, there's a "newspaper" tainting the potential jurors, attorneys say, which promotes the sheriff.
And where are all the files on TigerSwan, the paid FBI informants, and the military special ops?
Where are the files on the drone being shot down by law enforcement, the photos of the U.S. Border Patrol's surveillance plane, and the details about the BIA's surveillance van parked at the the tribe's Prairie Knights Casino, with BIA undercover officers wandering around inside the casino.
The judge, appointed by the governor, won't recuse himself.
Unicorn Riot media is in Minnesota Supreme Court fighting the pipeline's subpoena to seize its confidential media records.
Water protectors and media have been served with third party subpoenas by the pipeline in the pipeline's fishing expedition for their info.
And it's all coming to Mandan, North Dakota, at the end of February, to North Dakota's District Court, home to the Morton County Sheriff.
It's a $300 million frivolous SLAPP lawsuit to shut them down, says Greenpeace.
Greenpeace says the lawsuit is an attempt to deny that the movement to protect the water was led by Indigenous People.
Greenpeace said there was a large dump of records into the case.
Stay tuned, and dig through the files -- good luck.
Censored News.
Blacked out, Redacted -- Excerpts from the Case of Energy Transfer v Greenpeace and Red Warrior Society
In the many court actions, Energy Transfer adds the judge to the list of defendants, along with Greenpeace and Red Warriors, in this case before the North Dakota Supreme Court
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Redacted: CEO's deposition
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Standing Rock Nation said its lawsuit was triggered in part by a 2024 engineering report that raised questions about the construction of the pipeline crossing below Lake Oahe.
"The report calculated that up to 1.4 million gallons of bentonite clay-based drilling mud used in the horizontal directional drilling process was not fully accounted for in construction records. The report notes that there is no clear indication where the fluid migrated, but that it could have seeped into the surrounding soil."
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| Photo courtesy Oceti Sakowin Camp |
Standing Rock has long opposed the pipeline, saying it violates the tribe’s sovereignty, has damaged sacred cultural sites and poses a pollution threat to the tribe’s water supply.
The Army Corps of Engineers regulates a section of the pipeline that passes underneath Lake Oahe, a reservoir on the Missouri River less than a half-mile upstream from the Standing Rock Reservation.
“The Corps has failed to act and failed to protect the tribe,” Standing Rock Chair Janet Alkire said in an October news conference announcing the lawsuit.
The pipeline's path includes unceded land recognized as belonging to the Sioux Nation under an 1851 treaty with the U.S. government.
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