People around the world are tired of billionaires and corporate polluters <\/a>behaving like the law does not apply to them.<\/p>\n\n Greenpeace International faces Big Oil bully Energy Transfer at the Amsterdam court on 16 April as part of our landmark anti-SLAPP case <\/a>to pursue justice in our home territory under Dutch and EU law. <\/p>\n\n Energy Transfer has been waging abusive lawsuits<\/a> against Greenpeace International and Greenpeace in the US for nearly a decade. In February, a North Dakota District Court awarded the US-based pipeline company US$345 million in damages<\/a>. These SLAPPs are blatant attempts to silence free speech, erase Indigenous leadership of the Standing Rock movement<\/a>, and punish solidarity with peaceful resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline. <\/p>\n\n They want us \u2014 and all climate activists \u2014 to be scared by their corporate intimidation tactics. But their tactics won\u2019t succeed. We have already filed a motion for a new trial in the US<\/a> and will, if necessary, appeal. <\/p>\n\n Energy Transfer is desperate to avoid this case. Of course they are. Bullies always think they can get away with anything.<\/p>\n\n This landmark anti-SLAPP lawsuit <\/a>– invoking the European Union\u2019s new directive for the first time – sends a clear message to every bully, billionaire, and corporate polluter: your era of intimidation is over, and your tactics of fear will no longer work.<\/p>\n\n And it also sends a message to our allies: that it is time to resist<\/a>. We know we are strongest together, and we know we can win this legal fight<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n At the end of the day, this case is about a simple, undeniable truth: that power belongs to the people. It cannot be hijacked by bullies \u2014 and it certainly cannot be bought by oligarchs.<\/p>\n\n We are shining a light on the global threat of SLAPPs<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n We will make sure this bully understands that its intimidation attempts are failing.<\/p>\n\n And we want any corporations thinking of using a lawsuit as a weapon to know these tactics will backfire.<\/p>\n\n We stand firm. We stand together. And we will not be silenced.<\/p>\n\n![\"Energy](\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-international-stateless\/2026\/04\/3c625840-gp0su8nqu-1024x576.jpg\" "\\"Energy")
Facing down a Big Oil bully in court<\/h2>\n\n
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Why this anti-SLAPP case matters for activists everywhere<\/h2>\n\n