{"id":3566,"date":"2017-12-07T11:10:30","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T23:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/new-zealand\/?p=3566"},"modified":"2024-07-12T15:35:21","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T03:35:21","slug":"7-things-you-need-to-know-about-etps-lawsuit-against-greenpeace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/story\/7-things-you-need-to-know-about-etps-lawsuit-against-greenpeace\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Things You Need to Know About ETP\u2019s Lawsuit Against Greenpeace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Learn how an abusive lawsuit is part of a dangerous trend of companies trying to silence dissent.<\/p>\n<p>Energy Transfer Partners (ETP) \u2013 the company behind the Dakota Access Pipeline \u2013 has filed a lawsuit against Greenpeace and others, in its latest attempt to silence advocacy work and attack the fundamental right to free speech.<\/p>\n<p>In response to the powerful alliance of Indigenous communities and climate activists who stood in opposition to the Dakota Access pipeline at Standing Rock, ETP has filed this SLAPP lawsuit claiming nearly a billion dollars in damages. on behalf of Energy Transfer. Here\u2019s what you need to know about the suit.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3567\" style=\"width: 778px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3567\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3567\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2018\/06\/31b8d159-gp0stq9vd_web_size_with_credit_line-768x512.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2018\/06\/31b8d159-gp0stq9vd_web_size_with_credit_line-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2018\/06\/31b8d159-gp0stq9vd_web_size_with_credit_line-768x512-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2018\/06\/31b8d159-gp0stq9vd_web_size_with_credit_line-768x512-510x340.jpg 510w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3567\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A phalanx of National Guard and police advance toward water protectors in Standing Rock.<\/p><\/div>\n<h2><strong>1. What is a \u2018SLAPP\u2019 suit?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>SLAPP stands for \u201cStrategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation.\u201d As the name implies, corporations, using this tactic are trying to shut down public participation. SLAPPs are generally filed without any kind of legal merit. The purpose of a SLAPP is to censor, intimidate, and silence critics by burdening them with legal claims and costs until they\u2019re forced to abandon their criticism or opposition.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>2. Why is ETP using a SLAPP?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>ETP is SLAPPing its critics in an attempt to shut them up \u2013 or even better, to shut them down. ETP is suing Greenpeace for at least USD $900million. The corporation\u2019s hope is that the prospect of having to pay this \u2013 or at least of spending a lot of time and legal costs on fighting the lawsuit \u2013 will intimidate Greenpeace and others into silence.<\/p>\n<p>The goal of this suit is to silence opposition by misrepresenting what happened on the ground at Standing Rock \u2014 making outrageous and racist claims that big environmental organizations like Greenpeace orchestrated the Indigenous-led movement at Standing Rock.<\/p>\n<h2>3. This is a worrying trend<\/h2>\n<p>In 2016, Canadian company Resolute filed a SLAPP suit against Greenpeace, which was dismissed in full by a US federal judge. But the use of this dirty tactic by corporations is on the rise. As we face an upswing in a new global right-wing agenda, governments and corporations around the world are attempting to chip away at free speech. And it\u2019s not just about environmental groups, either. The SLAPP suit is designed to send a loud message so that any activist or public-interest advocacy group that takes on giant corporations will have to think twice before standing up for what they believe in.<\/p>\n<h2>4. Who\u2019s behind this suit<\/h2>\n<p>Just like the Resolute case, this one was filed by Michael Bowe. Bowe is also a member of Trump\u2019s personal legal team, and part of the law firm Kasowitz Benson Torres \u2013 founded and run by Marc E. Kasowitz, Trump\u2019s personal lawyer. The Times once described Kasowitz as \u201cthe Donald Trump of lawyering\u201d. Bowe has publicly stated that he\u2019s in conversations with other corporations considering filing their own SLAPPs against Greenpeace \u2013 suggesting this bullying and anti-democratic tactic is being shopped around to the highest bidder.<\/p>\n<h2>5. This is not a one-off.<\/h2>\n<p>There are many, many examples of SLAPP suits, here are a couple you may have heard of.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, coal magnate Bob Murray sued John Oliver after Last Week Tonight ran a segment on Coal \u2013 which prominently featured Murray. In the last 15 years, Murray and\/or his company have also sued various other journalists.<\/p>\n<p>The ACLU represented individuals in Uniontown, Alabama \u2014 a poor town predominantly made up of people of color \u2014 who were sued by Green Group Holdings for $30 million for standing up to a coal ash landfill in their town. The company revealed its motives when its lawyers approached the individuals in an attempt to cut a deal \u2013 if they agreed to give Green Group access to their electronic devices, access to their future social media postings, and extensive details about their group\u2019s membership, advocacy and communications with other environmental groups. Due to public outcry and the support of the ACLU, the residents reached a settlement in February and Green Group Holdings agreed to better environmental protections \u2014 but they shouldn\u2019t have had to deal with this corporate bullying in the first place. There are hundreds of others across America and beyond who won\u2019t be so lucky.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3568\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3568\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3568\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2018\/06\/79239195-gp0stqckg_web_size_with_credit_line-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2018\/06\/79239195-gp0stqckg_web_size_with_credit_line-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2018\/06\/79239195-gp0stqckg_web_size_with_credit_line-1-600x401.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2018\/06\/79239195-gp0stqckg_web_size_with_credit_line-1-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2018\/06\/79239195-gp0stqckg_web_size_with_credit_line-1-508x340.jpg 508w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3568\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">People march in support of the Standing Rock Nation at the Civic Center Plaza of San Francisco. The protest was one of many in a global day of action against the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) calling on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to cancel the permit for the project.<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>6. They\u2019re clutching at straws\u2026<\/h2>\n<p>Just like in the Resolute case, ETP is using the Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) \u2013 a law which was originally created to prosecute the mafia \u2013 to claim treble damages and inflate the amount of money it is able to demand. In their lawsuit, ETP claims that Greenpeace led a corrupt environmentalist enterprise that \u201ccynically planted radical, violent eco-terrorists on the ground amongst the protesters, and directly funded their operations\u201d \u2013 a baseless attempt to mislabel legal advocacy as criminal conduct through the use of these racketeering laws, and present constitutionally-protected free speech as defamatory. It\u2019s as ridiculous as it sounds\u2026<\/p>\n<h2>7. We can fight this<\/h2>\n<p>ETP and other corporate bullies are blatantly trying to stifle free speech and our right to peacefully protest. So let\u2019s show them that that\u2019s not going to happen: Refuse to be silent. Defend free speech. 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