A jury unanimously found that Greenpeace and its related parties are liable for damages stemming from protests over the Dakota Access Pipeline.
Jurors deliberated for two and a half days before delivering a verdict Wednesday afternoon.
A jury verdict form with the exact total was not immediately available, but it’s known Greenpeace will likely need to pay hundreds of millions of dollars.
The case reaches back to protests in 2016 and 2017 against the Dakota Access oil pipeline and its Missouri River crossing upstream of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s reservation. For years the tribe has opposed the line as a risk to its water supply. The multistate pipeline has been transporting oil since mid-2017.
