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Construction of the \u200cpipeline, which now transports roughly 40% of the oil produced in North Dakota&#8217;s Bakken region, was met with fierce protests by environmental and tribal \u2060advocacy groups who said it \u200bwould poison the local water supply and exacerbate climate change.       Texas-based Energy Transfer first sued Greenpeace in a federal court in North Dakota in 2017, accusing it of \u2060spreading falsehoods about the \u2060project and paying protesters \u2060to disrupt construction.       The North Dakota jury delivered its verdict in March, including damages for defamation, trespassing and conspiracy.       Greenpeace countersued Energy Transfer i<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>accountable for its unlawful and damaging actions against us during the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline.&#8221; It added \u200bit was &#8220;analyzing possible next steps that we may choose to take to make sure they are held fully accountable.&#8221; The Dakota Access project near the Standing Rock Indian Reservation began in 2016 and was completed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>North Dakota judge finalizes $345 million judgement - Metro Plus<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/multimetro.hk\/plus\/2026\/02\/28\/north-dakota-judge-finalizes-345-million-judgement\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"North Dakota judge finalizes $345 million judgement - 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