The Circus is Coming to Town: The Bizarre Lawsuit of Energy Transfer v Greenpeace and Red Warrior Society

The Circus is Coming to Town

The Bizarre Lawsuit of Energy Transfer v Greenpeace and Red Warrior Society

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, updated Feb. 16, 2025

The trial of Energy Transfer v Greenpeace is scheduled to begin in North Dakota court in Mandan on Feb. 24, 2025. It's been nine years since the Dakota Access Pipeline resistance. Now, Greenpeace International says the pipeline is trying to shut it down with a frivolous $300 million lawsuit.

Greenpeace says the pipeline company doesn't want the world to know the Water Protectors resistance at Standing Rock was an Indigenous-led movement. Meanwhile, Energy Transfer has been slapping Water Protectors with third party subpoenas to extract their information, and fighting Unicorn Riot media for its internal records in the Minnesota Supreme Court.

Thousands Sign Support for Greenpeace and Red Warrior Society in Pipeline SLAPP

Standing Rock, Sept. 3, 2016. Defense of Standing Rock burial places from the construction of Dakota Access Pipeline, as pipeline brought in dogs to attack water protectors. Video screen capture by Censored News.

Thousands Sign Support for Greenpeace and Red Warrior Society in Pipeline SLAPP

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Sept. 13, 2024

Energy Transfer plans to bankrupt Greenpeace USA with its $300 million lawsuit, and rewrite history by diminishing the role of Native people leading the movement to protect the water at Standing Rock from Dakota Access Pipeline. More than 290 organizations, and tens of thousands of individuals, have signed a letter supporting Greenpeace.

The SLAPP lawsuit names Greenpeace, Red Warrior Society and individual water protectors. Water protectors are also being served with third party subpoenas, in a fishing expedition for information. The lawsuit is slated for North Dakota State Court in Morton County in February of 2025 -- eight years after militarized police tore down and ransacked the water protector camps.