The USA jury has ordered Greenpeace to pay hundreds of millions of dollars as compensation in a lawsuit against the transfer of the oil pipeline, which fits serious fears of freedom of expression.

The Environmental Call Group said that it would appeal on Wednesday’s ruling, which came almost a decade after the activists joined a protest led by Permanent rock tribe against Dakota arrives pipelineIn one of the largest anti -preserving fuel protests in the history of the United States.

North Dakota’s jury gave more than $ 660 million as compensation across three Greenpeace entities, noting fees including infringement, annoying, conspiracy and deprivation of property.

Energy Transfer, a Texas -based company worth $ 64 billion, celebrated the ruling and denied the attempt to strangle speech.

“We would like to thank the judge and the jury for the amazing amount of the time and effort they devoted to this trial,” the company said in a statement.

“While we are pleased that Greenpeace is responsible for their actions, this victory is really dedicated to the people of Mandan and all over North Dakota who had to live through daily harassment and disturbances caused by the demonstrators who were funded and trained by Greenpece.”

The jury circulated nine people in Mandan, North Dakota, for two days, in the trial that started in late February, before being found in favor of energy transporting on most of the charges.

However, a group of lawyers who watched the case, describing themselves the trial monitoring committee, said that many jury have relations with the fossil fuel industry.

The committee said in a statement after the choice of the jury: “Most of the jury in the case have relations with the oil and gas industry, and some publicly admitted that they could not be neutral, although the judge sits them anyway.”

Greenpeace plans to appeal the ruling. Greenpeace International is also the transfer of energy in the Netherlands, accusing the inconvenience company to suppress the opposition. A listening session was appointed in this case on July 2.

“The battle against the old oil has not ended today,” said Christine Casper, General Adviser at Greenpes.

“We know that the law and the truth beside us.”

“Water Hama” is a permanent rock

The issue of energy transfer against Greenpeace has been due to the protests in Northern Dakota for about 10 years.

In April 2016, the Standing Rock Sioux tribe A protest camp set up Along the course of the proposed access to the proposed Dakota to stop the construction, they call themselves “Water protectors.”

The camp lasted for more than a year, as it was initially supported by other indigenous people across the country and then from other activists, including environmental organizations such as Greenpeace, and even Hundreds of ancient warriors in the army.

Although the winter conditions began to reach hundreds of police in the protests with waves of violent arrests, too The targeted journalistsSix and their supporters remain in place.

According to the Trey Cox lawyer closure in Trey Cox, the role of Greenpece played by the “exploitation” of the permanent rock tribe to push the anti -fuel agenda to maintain the hole, according to North Dakota Monitor.

But Greenpeace confirms that it played a small and just role in the movement, which, as it says, was led by the indigenous Americans.

As one of the Lacota organizations, Nick Tilsen, witnessed during the trial, the idea that Green passion organized “parental” protests, according to the Lacota Times.

Despite the protests, the pipeline, designed to transport crude oil broken to refineries and global markets, is working in 2017.

However, the energy transfer continued its legal endeavor to Greenpeace, initially seeking to obtain $ 300 million as compensation through a federal lawsuit, which was rejected.

Then it transformed its legal strategy to the courts of Northern Dakota, one of the US minority without protection against the so -called “strategic claims against public participation” (SLAPP).

“Exercise, Exercises for Children”

On Wednesday’s rule is another victory for the fossil fuel industry, as President Donald Trump promises to open the United States to expand fossil fuels, with the slogan of his campaign “Drilling, Small Drilling”, including by by Eliminate air and water Protection.

Over the course of the legal battle, the CEO of Energy Transfer’s Billionaire Kelcy Warren was the main donor of Trump, on his motives.

In the interviews, he said that “his primary goal” in prosecuting Greenpeace, in the interviews, was not just a financial compensation but “sending a message.”

Warren went to the point that the activists should be removed from the genes. “

Critics on the issue calls a SLAPP book book, designed to silence the opposition and deplete financial resources.

This comes because the Trump administration is also seeking to set a broader campaign on freedom of expression throughout the country.

In a post on Bluezki who responds to Wednesday’s referee, the author and journalist Naomi Klein indicated that “attacks on protest and freedoms” affect various movements including “climate, Palestine, work, immigrants, transit and reproductive rights” as related.

Klein added: “The fossil fuel companies must be forced to pay a trillion general trillion as compensation for the costs of intentional burning.”

At the same time, climate change already contributes to severe and recurrent disasters in the United States and around the world, including The last fires in CaliforniaAnd An unprecedented hurricane In North Carolina.

The Standing Rock Sioux tribe filed a new lawsuit last October against the American Army Engineers Corps, which has a specialty on a section of the pipeline from the permanent rock reserve, on the pretext that the pipeline is working illegally and must be closed, according to the monitoring of the Northern Dakota.