{"id":61535,"date":"2023-11-09T18:18:17","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T05:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/?p=61535"},"modified":"2024-07-12T09:23:27","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T21:23:27","slug":"shell-hits-greenpeace-with-intimidation-lawsuit-to-silence-climate-demands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/press-release\/shell-hits-greenpeace-with-intimidation-lawsuit-to-silence-climate-demands\/","title":{"rendered":"Shell hits Greenpeace with intimidation lawsuit: threatening $8.6m damages claim and protest ban to silence climate demands"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dutch oil giant Shell has launched an intimidation lawsuit against Greenpeace UK and Greenpeace International, demanding that the organisation stop all protests at Shell infrastructure, at sea or in port, anywhere in the world, forever.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>Greenpeace says it will not back down.<\/p>\n\n<p>The unprecedented legal action comes in response to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/press-release\/greenpeace-board-occupy-shell-platform-atlantic\/\">Greenpeace\u2019s occupation of a Shell oil platform<\/a> en route to drill in the North Sea. In February this year, six activists boarded and occupied the platform for 13 days in protest against Shell\u2019s plans to keep drilling for more fossil fuels. The claim is one of the biggest legal threats against the Greenpeace network\u2019s ability to campaign in its more than 50-year history.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2023\/11\/fa73b1a2-gp0stvcqf-1024x768.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-61530\"\/><\/figure>\n\n<p>For many years, Greenpeace has been a thorn in the oil giant\u2019s side all over the world, including in New Zealand. Most notably, in 2012, actress Lucy Lawless joined six Greenpeace activists in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/press-release\/lucy-lawless-occupies-shell-arctic-drilling-ship-taranaki\/\">occupying the Shell-contracted drilling ship <em>Noble Discoverer<\/em><\/a> in Taranaki to prevent it from travelling to the Arctic to drill for oil.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"771\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2023\/11\/13b917aa-gp03pqh_medium_res_with_credit_line-1024x771.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-61486\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2023\/11\/13b917aa-gp03pqh_medium_res_with_credit_line-1024x771.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2023\/11\/13b917aa-gp03pqh_medium_res_with_credit_line-600x452.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2023\/11\/13b917aa-gp03pqh_medium_res_with_credit_line-768x579.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2023\/11\/13b917aa-gp03pqh_medium_res_with_credit_line-451x340.jpg 451w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2023\/11\/13b917aa-gp03pqh_medium_res_with_credit_line.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Actor Lucy Lawless and Greenpeace New Zealand activists on the second day of their protest to stop a Shell-contracted drillship from departing Port Taranaki for the remote Arctic, where its exploratory oil drilling programme threatens to devastate Alaska&#8217;s coastline. The activists deploy a new banner which reads &#8216;#SaveTheArctic&#8217;.  Six Greenpeace New Zealand activists, along with Lawless, famous for her roles in &#8216;Xena: Warrior Princess&#8217; and &#8216;Spartacus&#8217;, boarded the vessel and scaled its 53-metre drilling derrick more than 24 hours ago. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<p><strong>In response to the lawsuit, Lawless says:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cI know some of the people at Greenpeace. I know they won\u2019t back down to legal threats from the likes of Shell &#8211; because opposing the oil industry is too important. The climate crisis &#8211; driven by oil and gas &#8211; threatens all that we know and love. It threatens our children\u2019s chance at a future.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cI know how persistent Greenpeace is. I\u2019ve jumped into the icy Barents Sea with Greenpeace activists to stop oil exploration there. I&#8217;ve sailed on the Rainbow Warrior, and I&#8217;ve occupied the derrick of a Shell drillship in Taranaki for four nights with them, too.<\/p>\n\n<p>&#8220;I know how important peaceful protest is. And when Greenpeace takes on Shell again, I\u2019ll put my hand up to be right there with them again, legal threats or not.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cOil exploration threatens the very future of life on earth. Oil companies are driving the climate crisis, causing more frequent and more severe extreme weather events. I will continue to stand against the oil industry, just as I have before. Shell\u2019s threats won\u2019t stop me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Greenpeace Aotearoa spokesperson Amanda Larsson says,<\/strong> &#8220;Greenpeace will not back down, and we will fight this legal threat from Shell. We will continue to resist the oil industry here in Aotearoa and around the world until they put the health of the planet over their drive for profit and stop drilling for oil. The science is very clear that for us all to have a future, the oil industry can have no future.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cThe world is teetering on the brink of climate catastrophe thanks to the fossil fuel industry, and Shell is one of the worst culprits. Even now, as the costs of climate disasters pile up, Shell continues to make record profits and shows no sign of slowing down or making amends,\u201d says Larsson.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cPeaceful protest is essential in bringing about the change that will see the end of this dangerous industry. Governments are failing to protect us from the oil industry, and that will only change through peaceful protest.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cWhen Shell was last in Aotearoa, searching for new oil and gas at the invitation of the previous National Government, hundreds of thousands of New Zealanders pushed them out by signing petitions, attending marches and h\u012bkoi, and crucially, participating in peaceful protest,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n\n<p>In 2016, Shell instructed its investment bank to offload its more than $1 billion New Zealand oil exploration and production portfolio. The portfolio was eventually acquired by the Austrian oil company OMV. In 2018, then Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced a ban on all new offshore oil and gas exploration permits.<\/p>\n\n<p>Larsson says, \u201cThis move by Shell to stop legitimate environmental protest is reminiscent of the Anadarko Amendment passed here in New Zealand by the John Key Government, in an attempt to placate the oil industry by stopping protest at sea.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p>Greenpeace continued to take action against the oil industry in spite of the law change. Most notably, the late Jeanette Fitzsimons and the former Greenpeace Director Bunny McDiarmid led a flotilla into the exclusion zone of the drillship <em>Noble Bob Douglas <\/em>in 2013, protesting Anadarko\u2019s plans to drill for oil.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cGreenpeace will continue to resist climate polluters all around the world &#8211; and we\u2019re committed to doing so here in Aotearoa in the face of Christopher Luxon\u2019s threat to bring back new offshore oil and gas exploration,\u201d says Larsson.<\/p>\n\n<p>Greenpeace Aotearoa has launched an <a href=\"https:\/\/petition.act.greenpeace.org.nz\/climate-resist-oil-gas-exploration-open-letter\">open letter to the oil and gas industry<\/a>, promising to resist any attempt to conduct oil exploration in Aotearoa. Almost 10,000 people have signed on since it was launched in October.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<section\n\t\t\tclass=\"boxout post-61546  sticky-bottom-mobile collapse show\"\n\t\t\tid=\"action-card\"\n\t\t>\n\t\t\t<a\n\t\t\t\tdata-ga-category=\"Take Action Boxout\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-ga-action=\"Image\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-ga-label=\"n\/a\"\n\t\t\t\tclass=\"cover-card-overlay\"\n\t\t\t\thref=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/petition\/open-letter-oil-exploration-petition\/\" \n\t\t\t><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img\n\t\t\t\t\t\tsrc=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2023\/10\/11c70947-gp0sttfxw_medium_res-1024x683.jpg\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tsrcset=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2023\/10\/11c70947-gp0sttfxw_medium_res-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2023\/10\/11c70947-gp0sttfxw_medium_res-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2023\/10\/11c70947-gp0sttfxw_medium_res-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2023\/10\/11c70947-gp0sttfxw_medium_res-510x340.jpg 510w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2023\/10\/11c70947-gp0sttfxw_medium_res.jpg 1200w\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tsizes=\"(min-width: 1000px) 358px, (min-width: 780px) 313px, 88px\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\talt=\"An OMV oil rig off the coast of New Zealand\" title=\"An OMV oil rig off the coast of New Zealand\"\n\t\t\t\t\/>\n            \t\t\t<div class=\"boxout-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a\n\t\t\t\t\t\tclass=\"boxout-heading medium\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-ga-category=\"Take Action Boxout\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-ga-action=\"Title\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-ga-label=\"n\/a\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\thref=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/petition\/open-letter-oil-exploration-petition\/\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tSay no to new oil exploration\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"boxout-excerpt\">Sign the open letter to the oil industry &#8211; We will resist oil exploration<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t                                    <a\n                        class=\"btn btn-primary\"\n                        data-ga-category=\"Take Action Boxout\"\n                        data-ga-action=\"Call to Action\"\n                        data-ga-label=\"n\/a\"\n                        href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/petition\/open-letter-oil-exploration-petition\/\"\n                        \n                    >\n                        Sign on\n                    <\/a>\n                \t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a\n\t\t\t\t\tclass=\"not-now\"\n\t\t\t\t\trole=\"button\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-bs-toggle=\"collapse\"\n\t\t\t\t\thref=\"#action-card\"\n\t\t\t\t><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/section>\n\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dutch oil giant Shell has launched an intimidation lawsuit against Greenpeace UK and Greenpeace International, demanding that the organisation stop all protests at Shell infrastructure, at sea or in port<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_planet4_optimize_post_is_variant":false,"_planet4_optimize_experiment_name":"","_planet4_optimize_variant_name":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"p4_og_title":"","p4_og_description":"","p4_og_image":"","p4_og_image_id":"","p4_seo_canonical_url":"","p4_campaign_name":"","p4_local_project":"","p4_basket_name":"","p4_department":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[26],"p4-page-type":[7],"class_list":["post-61535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-greenpeace","tag-oil-and-gas","p4-page-type-press-release"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.8 (Yoast SEO v26.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Shell hits Greenpeace with intimidation lawsuit: threatening $8.6m damages claim and protest ban to silence climate demands<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/press-release\/shell-hits-greenpeace-with-intimidation-lawsuit-to-silence-climate-demands\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Shell hits Greenpeace with intimidation lawsuit: threatening $8.6m damages claim and protest ban to silence climate demands\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dutch oil giant Shell has launched an intimidation lawsuit against Greenpeace UK and Greenpeace International, demanding that the organisation stop all protests at Shell infrastructure, at sea or in port\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/press-release\/shell-hits-greenpeace-with-intimidation-lawsuit-to-silence-climate-demands\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Greenpeace Aotearoa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/greenpeace.nz\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-11-09T05:18:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-07-11T21:23:27+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Amanda Larsson\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@GreenpeaceNZ\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@GreenpeaceNZ\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Amanda Larsson\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/press-release\/shell-hits-greenpeace-with-intimidation-lawsuit-to-silence-climate-demands\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/press-release\/shell-hits-greenpeace-with-intimidation-lawsuit-to-silence-climate-demands\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Amanda Larsson\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/#\/schema\/person\/3c0523388e16a96d350f0881e2a41b22\"},\"headline\":\"Shell hits Greenpeace with intimidation lawsuit: threatening $8.6m damages claim and protest ban to silence climate demands\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-11-09T05:18:17+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-07-11T21:23:27+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/press-release\/shell-hits-greenpeace-with-intimidation-lawsuit-to-silence-climate-demands\/\"},\"wordCount\":878,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/press-release\/shell-hits-greenpeace-with-intimidation-lawsuit-to-silence-climate-demands\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2023\/11\/fa73b1a2-gp0stvcqf-1024x768.webp\",\"keywords\":[\"Oil&amp;Gas\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Greenpeace\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/press-release\/shell-hits-greenpeace-with-intimidation-lawsuit-to-silence-climate-demands\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/press-release\/shell-hits-greenpeace-with-intimidation-lawsuit-to-silence-climate-demands\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/press-release\/shell-hits-greenpeace-with-intimidation-lawsuit-to-silence-climate-demands\/\",\"name\":\"Shell hits Greenpeace with intimidation lawsuit: threatening $8.6m damages claim and protest ban to silence climate demands\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/press-release\/shell-hits-greenpeace-with-intimidation-lawsuit-to-silence-climate-demands\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/press-release\/shell-hits-greenpeace-with-intimidation-lawsuit-to-silence-climate-demands\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2023\/11\/fa73b1a2-gp0stvcqf-1024x768.webp\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-11-09T05:18:17+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-07-11T21:23:27+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/#\/schema\/person\/3c0523388e16a96d350f0881e2a41b22\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/press-release\/shell-hits-greenpeace-with-intimidation-lawsuit-to-silence-climate-demands\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/press-release\/shell-hits-greenpeace-with-intimidation-lawsuit-to-silence-climate-demands\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/press-release\/shell-hits-greenpeace-with-intimidation-lawsuit-to-silence-climate-demands\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2023\/11\/fa73b1a2-gp0stvcqf-1024x768.webp\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2023\/11\/fa73b1a2-gp0stvcqf-1024x768.webp\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/press-release\/shell-hits-greenpeace-with-intimidation-lawsuit-to-silence-climate-demands\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"http:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Shell hits Greenpeace with intimidation lawsuit: threatening $8.6m damages claim and protest ban to silence climate demands\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/\",\"name\":\"Greenpeace Aotearoa\",\"description\":\"Our mission is to ensure Earth\u2019s ability to nurture life in all its diversity.\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/#\/schema\/person\/3c0523388e16a96d350f0881e2a41b22\",\"name\":\"Amanda Larsson\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/eedb930453c9c69f741a9fbc040108c0f601bb8852191211d17d4b30ddcbc752?s=96&d=blank&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/eedb930453c9c69f741a9fbc040108c0f601bb8852191211d17d4b30ddcbc752?s=96&d=blank&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Amanda Larsson\"},\"description\":\"Amanda Larsson has been campaigning with Greenpeace Aotearoa since 2016. An ecological economist by training, she has advocated for nature and the climate in grassroots, corporate, political and NGO roles. She led Greenpeace Aotearoa\u2019s campaigns against deep sea oil exploration and for solarising New Zealand. She is now leading the team that is working to transform the agriculture system away from intensive dairy farming that is polluting the climate and decimating biodiversity towards ecological farming that works in harmony with people and nature. Amanda is originally from the west coast of Sweden and made T\u0101maki Makaurau her home in 2014. You can follow her musings on Twitter.\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/author\/alarsson\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Shell hits Greenpeace with intimidation lawsuit: threatening $8.6m damages claim and protest ban to silence climate demands","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/press-release\/shell-hits-greenpeace-with-intimidation-lawsuit-to-silence-climate-demands\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Shell hits Greenpeace with intimidation lawsuit: threatening $8.6m damages claim and protest ban to silence climate demands","og_description":"Dutch oil giant Shell has launched an intimidation lawsuit against Greenpeace UK and Greenpeace International, demanding that the organisation stop all protests at Shell infrastructure, at sea or in port","og_url":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/press-release\/shell-hits-greenpeace-with-intimidation-lawsuit-to-silence-climate-demands\/","og_site_name":"Greenpeace Aotearoa","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/greenpeace.nz","article_published_time":"2023-11-09T05:18:17+00:00","article_modified_time":"2024-07-11T21:23:27+00:00","author":"Amanda Larsson","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@GreenpeaceNZ","twitter_site":"@GreenpeaceNZ","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Amanda Larsson","Est. reading time":"4 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/press-release\/shell-hits-greenpeace-with-intimidation-lawsuit-to-silence-climate-demands\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/press-release\/shell-hits-greenpeace-with-intimidation-lawsuit-to-silence-climate-demands\/"},"author":{"name":"Amanda Larsson","@id":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/#\/schema\/person\/3c0523388e16a96d350f0881e2a41b22"},"headline":"Shell hits Greenpeace with intimidation lawsuit: threatening $8.6m damages claim and protest ban to silence climate demands","datePublished":"2023-11-09T05:18:17+00:00","dateModified":"2024-07-11T21:23:27+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/press-release\/shell-hits-greenpeace-with-intimidation-lawsuit-to-silence-climate-demands\/"},"wordCount":878,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/press-release\/shell-hits-greenpeace-with-intimidation-lawsuit-to-silence-climate-demands\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2023\/11\/fa73b1a2-gp0stvcqf-1024x768.webp","keywords":["Oil&amp;Gas"],"articleSection":["Greenpeace"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/press-release\/shell-hits-greenpeace-with-intimidation-lawsuit-to-silence-climate-demands\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/press-release\/shell-hits-greenpeace-with-intimidation-lawsuit-to-silence-climate-demands\/","url":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/press-release\/shell-hits-greenpeace-with-intimidation-lawsuit-to-silence-climate-demands\/","name":"Shell hits Greenpeace with intimidation lawsuit: threatening $8.6m damages claim and protest ban to silence climate demands","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/press-release\/shell-hits-greenpeace-with-intimidation-lawsuit-to-silence-climate-demands\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/press-release\/shell-hits-greenpeace-with-intimidation-lawsuit-to-silence-climate-demands\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2023\/11\/fa73b1a2-gp0stvcqf-1024x768.webp","datePublished":"2023-11-09T05:18:17+00:00","dateModified":"2024-07-11T21:23:27+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/#\/schema\/person\/3c0523388e16a96d350f0881e2a41b22"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/press-release\/shell-hits-greenpeace-with-intimidation-lawsuit-to-silence-climate-demands\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/press-release\/shell-hits-greenpeace-with-intimidation-lawsuit-to-silence-climate-demands\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/press-release\/shell-hits-greenpeace-with-intimidation-lawsuit-to-silence-climate-demands\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2023\/11\/fa73b1a2-gp0stvcqf-1024x768.webp","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2023\/11\/fa73b1a2-gp0stvcqf-1024x768.webp"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/press-release\/shell-hits-greenpeace-with-intimidation-lawsuit-to-silence-climate-demands\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"http:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Shell hits Greenpeace with intimidation lawsuit: threatening $8.6m damages claim and protest ban to silence climate demands"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/","name":"Greenpeace Aotearoa","description":"Our mission is to ensure Earth\u2019s ability to nurture life in all its diversity.","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/#\/schema\/person\/3c0523388e16a96d350f0881e2a41b22","name":"Amanda Larsson","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/eedb930453c9c69f741a9fbc040108c0f601bb8852191211d17d4b30ddcbc752?s=96&d=blank&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/eedb930453c9c69f741a9fbc040108c0f601bb8852191211d17d4b30ddcbc752?s=96&d=blank&r=g","caption":"Amanda Larsson"},"description":"Amanda Larsson has been campaigning with Greenpeace Aotearoa since 2016. An ecological economist by training, she has advocated for nature and the climate in grassroots, corporate, political and NGO roles. She led Greenpeace Aotearoa\u2019s campaigns against deep sea oil exploration and for solarising New Zealand. She is now leading the team that is working to transform the agriculture system away from intensive dairy farming that is polluting the climate and decimating biodiversity towards ecological farming that works in harmony with people and nature. Amanda is originally from the west coast of Sweden and made T\u0101maki Makaurau her home in 2014. You can follow her musings on Twitter.","url":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/author\/alarsson\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61535"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61584,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61535\/revisions\/61584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61535"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/aotearoa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=61535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}