Greenpeace turned down a settlement and refused to sell out Standing Rock Water Protectors. Standing Rock Chairman Dave Archambault refused to cut a deal with the pipeline. Reporter Alleen Brown reveals new facts in the pipeline's schemes and the court case Energy Transfer v Greenpeace. In the recent case in North Dakota District Court, the jury awarded Energy Transfer more than $660 million.
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| When Dakota Access Pipeline bulldozed Lakota burial places on Sept. 3, 2016, Water Protectors rushed to defend the burial sites. The pipeline unleashed attack dogs on them. |
"Over the course of a few days, they documented 27 burial sites and 82 stone features — arranged in circles and other patterns for ceremonial purposes — all along a 2-mile corridor that Energy Transfer planned to dig up," reports Alleen Brown at Grist.
When the pipeline bulldozed Lakota the burial area, Water Protectors rushed to defend the sacred site. Dakota Access Pipeline unleashed attack dogs on them.
In court, Energy Transfer denied it bulldozed Lakota burial places.
The court sealed up a trove of documents, and prevented questions on many of the issues. The pipeline subpoenaed Water Protectors and the media in the case, Energy Transfer v Greenpeace -- but never served the two Lakota named in the lawsuit at Red Warrior Camp.
Brown exposes the backroom schemes, and failed attempts of the pipeline to compromise the movement, and the failed attempts to enlist sell outs, in the court case.
The pipeline's proposed settlement, and Greenpeace's decision not to lie, which would have endangered the Standing Rock Tribe, caused an internal rupture at Greenpeace.
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