Energy Transfer’s SLAPP lawsuit

Updates from Greenpeace’s defense

Big Oil bully Energy Transfer is waging a SLAPP lawsuit against Greenpeace organisations in an attempt to silence protest and rewrite the history of the Indigenous-led protest movement against the Dakota Access Pipeline.

Dakota Access Pipeline Day of Action in Los Angeles © Jonathan Alcorn / Greenpeace

All together now: #WeWillNotBeSilenced

Energy Transfer’s meritless, back-to-back lawsuits against Greenpeace International and Greenpeace entities in the US since 2017 are perhaps the world’s most brazen examples of a Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation (SLAPP).

Although laws against SLAPPs are being proposed and implemented around the world, these abusive lawsuits are currently a weapon of Big Oil bullies.

ET’s SLAPP represents a crucial test of this dangerous legal tactic that, if successful, could see it even more widely applied against peaceful protesters, especially in the US, and anyone who speaks out or criticises a deep-pocketed corporation.

Stay tuned for updates on the trial in North Dakota and the global response

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Global Week of Action: Solidarity against Energy Transfer's Lawsuit in Granada (Spain). © Greenpeace / Pablo Blazquez

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