For decades, Greenpeace activists have used the legal system, “direct action,” vandalism, and even violence against energy companies and workers. Well, the tables have turned BIG TIME. A North Dakota jury decided this week that Greenpeace must pay oil company Energy Transfer a staggering $667 million for inciting protests, encouraging violence, and damaging the company’s reputation. Before the verdict, Greenpeace USA said such a decision would bankrupt the organization and drive it to extinction. Well, Greenpeace are the dinosaurs, and that case is their asteroid.
The Heartland Institute’s Anthony Watts, Sterling Burnett, Linnea Lueken, and Jim Lakely will discuss this staggering decision — rare moment when radical environmental activists are held accountable for their disruptive and destructive actions.
We will also cover some of the Crazy Climate News of the Week, which includes the FBI opening criminal fraud investigations against those involved in the Biden EPA’s climate grift, while an Obama-appointed judge has delayed the clawback of the $20 billion in grants because there is “no evidence” of fraud. There’s also more bad news for unreliable wind power, Tesla vandalism continues unabated, and we’ve learned the Biden administration buried a report by its own Department of Energy that would have undermined its unilateral banning of natural gas exports.
Join us LIVE at 1 p.m. ET for Episode 150 of The Climate Realism show and we will answer your questions in the chat.
Greenpeace is facing bankruptcy? Excuse me while I sob (with laughter).
Only Greenpeace USA.
This award will bankrupt the entire organisation.
‘Green”peace’ is part of the progressive system. They are the Green Shirts of that system. They were taken over by the system and get their orders from it. There is little the printing press can’t corrupt/buy.
Their demise stems from going for the green instead of going green.
They were taken over by the ‘progressive’ system and gets their orders from it.
First two comments are by cats. Odd world.
If we had thumbs, you hoomins would be unnecessary except for scritches and noms.
And Rabies shots. 🙂
Weird non sequitur.
“Greenpeace must pay oil company Energy Transfer a staggering $667 million for inciting protests, encouraging violence, and damaging the company’s reputation.”
Finally a fitting use for the word “staggering”.
Greenpeace is your tax dollars/printing press. That’s why in a progressive system they are above the law.
Followed links back 16 years.
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Greenpeace made the claim in a July 15 press release entitled “Urgent Action Needed As Arctic Ice Melts,” which said there will be an ice-free Arctic by 2030 because of global warming.
Under close questioning by BBC reporter Stephen Sackur on the “Hardtalk” program, Gerd Leipold, the retiring leader of Greenpeace, said the claim was wrong.
“I don’t think it will be melting by 2030. … That may have been a mistake,” he said.
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Ironically the press release link leads to GP’s own webpage error:
“This page might be extinct!”
Greenpeace is on the same list as the CIA or FBI or Antifa. They all have the same masters.
I have a six pack ready to sip while I enjoy the show.
Perhaps you’ll consider donating the empties to Greenpeace. 😉
In BC, the deposit on Al cans is 10 cents. They would need to collect 6.67 billion cans to pay the judgement.
The only time I would consider helping Greenpiss is the consumption os said cans
“I have a six pack”
So what.. I have a keg 😉
There is undoubtedly some serious fraud in the climate arena, but I would suspect that at least some of the climate funds were actually going to mostly justifiable uses.
Certainly it should be investigated, and the taxpayer money traced and accounted for.
Anyone here a US legal expert who can comment on whether this could be overturned?
If it stands, it’s wonderful news, but probably best not to count the chickens until they are really forced to pay up
“The three Greenpeace entities named in the lawsuit — Greenpeace Inc., a U.S.-based advocacy arm; Greenpeace Funds, which raises money and is also based in the U.S.; and Greenpeace International, based in the Netherlands — are now planning their next moves, including an appeal to the North Dakota Supreme Court and a separate countersuit in the European Union.”
“Pat Parenteau, an emeritus professor at the Vermont Law and Graduate School, said the chances that the North Dakota Supreme Court will overturn the lower court’s verdict are “probably less than 50 percent.” What may be more likely, he said, is that the Supreme Court will reduce the “outrageous” amount of money charged by the Morton County jury, which includes various penalties that doubled the $300 million in damages that Energy Transfer had originally claimed.”
This is what I fear
Nevertheless, the overall direction is not in their favour. I do believe they’ll enjoy a lot less backing in the future, although my suspicion is they’re too well organised and funded to go quietly
Even if all the penalties are removed, $300 million is still not small change.
But the only thing certain is the lawyers will all get paid.
Why didn’t this happen decades ago?
The whales were saved. Did Greenpeace disband?
Nope. I wonder why not.
They needed to devise another crisis to keep the money flowing. The global warming/climate change scam provided the vehicle for the paid protesters to continue their nefarious activities. Now the whales are threatened again. The “progressive” wheel keeps turning.
I know you already surmised this, but it needed to be said for those slow on the uptake.
Bankruptcy will be nice, but I still want to see all the pedophiles who were involved in that awful falling and crashing polar bear commercial, a bloody mess that traumatized children, treated like we treat pedophiles, post DEI of course.