Global NGOs Shocked And Dismayed Over Greenpeace $660 Million In Damages Ruling

They are all very upset that a company dared to sue despite all the climate cult groups using massive lawfare

Greenpeace $660mn damages ruling shocks global NGOs

Civil society groups on Thursday condemned a US court order that Greenpeace pay over $660 million in damages to an oil pipeline company as a chilling attack on climate action around the globe.

Environmental defenders rallied behind Greenpeace after the shock ruling by a North Dakota jury fuelled concerns that courtrooms were increasingly being used to smother critics.

“It sends a dangerous message: that fossil fuel giants can weaponize the courts to bankrupt and silence those who challenge the destruction of our planet,” said Anne Jellema, executive director of advocacy group 350.org.

The judgement “is not only an attack on Greenpeace — it is an assault on the entire climate movement, clearly intended to chill the resistance to fossil fuels”, she added in a written statement to AFP.

Or, perhaps climate cultists shouldn’t attack private companies and damage their very expensive equipment.

Ana Caistor Arendar from rights monitor Global Witness said it was “an existential threat to activism, protest and to land and environmental defenders, not just in the US, but everywhere”.

Violence and defamation are not protest. But, hey, if they are saying they cannot operate without doing that, well, too bad.

Brice Bohmer from Transparency International, a global corruption watchdog, said the lawsuit was “unconscionable” and evidence of a much wider problem.

“This kind of activity is becoming increasingly common across climate action, with fossil fuel actors undermining progress wherever possible,” he said.

So fossil fuels companies, where are completely legal, are just supposed to sit back and allow the cult groups to attack them? Oh, brother. And there are even more examples of the cult groups whining. Seriously, breaking the law has consequences, Greenpeace and NGOs. Crying because those laws were enforced is hilarious. Think twice before doing it again. But, they won’t.

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