Energy Transfer Suit Claims Greenpeace Incites Eco-Terrorism
- Company files federal racketeering lawsuit in North Dakota
- Allegations arise from clashes over Dakota Access pipeline
Greenpeace activists hang a banner off of a construction crane that reads 'Resist' past the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Jan. 25, 2017. The protest came one day after the Trump administration issued a memorandum supporting completion of the Energy Transfer Partners LPs Dakota Access Pipeline.
Photographer: Andrew Harrer/BloombergEnergy Transfer Partners LP accused Greenpeace International, Earth First! and other groups of inciting terrorist acts and vandalism to generate publicity and raise money for their causes while hampering the Dakota Access pipeline operator’s ability to raise money for projects.
Energy Transfer is the second company to attack Greenpeace and its allies in court for engaging in what they claim is a racketeering scheme far beyond ordinary environmental advocacy. Resolute Forest Products Inc. made similar allegations over Greenpeace’s campaign against logging in a May 2016 lawsuit. Both companies are represented by Kasowitz Benson Torres LLP, a New York-based law firm whose managing partner Marc Kasowitz is President Donald Trump’s longtime personal attorney.