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Greenpeace Suffers Another Blow in Court Fight With Pipeline Giant. (New York Times)

Greenpeace International, the global coordinating body of the environmental organization, suffered an unusual setback on Thursday when the North Dakota Supreme Court said the organization should not be allowed to pursue a lawsuit in the Netherlands, where it is based.

It is rare for a court in one country to try to block a lawsuit in another country.

The ruling is the latest twist in the long-running legal fight between Greenpeace and the pipeline company Energy Transfer. Last year, Energy Transfer won a verdict totaling hundreds of millions of dollars in damages in its claim that several separate Greenpeace organizations had played a major role in protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline a decade ago.

The U.S.-based branch of the environmental group, Greenpeace USA, has said it may need to file for bankruptcy because of the size of the damages. But its Amsterdam-based counterpart, Greenpeace International, has countersued under Dutch law.

That countersuit argues that Energy Transfer’s case was a SLAPP lawsuit, short for Strategic Litigation Against Public Participation, a term for an action by a company or person that is designed to silence critics by saddling them with a costly court fight. Many American states have anti-SLAPP provisions, but not North Dakota, where Energy Transfer had sued Greenpeace over the pipeline demonstrations.

However, the Netherlands does have anti-SLAPP regulations on its books.

On Thursday, the North Dakota Supreme Court ordered a lower court to reverse its original ruling and issue a rare anti-suit injunction to block Greenpeace International from pursuing its countersuit in the Netherlands. The Supreme Court issued directions for a “narrowly tailored” order to stop the Dutch case.

The court fight centers on protests against the pipeline a decade ago. Energy Transfer accused Greenpeace of leading the protests and sued for defamation and interference with business operations, among other claims. Greenpeace maintained that it had played only a supporting role in peaceful protests. A jury awarded Energy Transfer an even larger verdict than expected, nearly $670 million, which a judge later reduced to $345 million.

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The nastier she becomes, the harder he gets...

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Stop "returning" energy.

Don't match it, don't plan, or strategize, or plot, stop entertaining what has nothing to do with you.

It doesn't matter what anyone else did, what was said, felt, unsaid, what went down, what was imagined, what happened, whatever...STOP.

You are not helping or making a point or a stand; it is only perpetuating a stagnant, low vibrational, cycle. You are worth more than that.

Matching energy isn't voicing your truth. It isn't gaining any favor. Let it be and let it go.

Be you. Do you. Move as only you can & no matter what happens, keep going.

What is yours can not be taken from you. Your opportunities will present themselves, to you, when you are *ready*.

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Save Greenpeace - Greenpeace is being sued for $300 million

Energy Transfer, the Big Oil company behind the Dakota Access Pipeline, claims that Greenpeace USA and Greenpeace International organized th

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