#Greenpeace on Trial: $300M Lawsuit over #StandingRock #Protests Could Shutter Group & Chill #FreeSpeech

#DemocracyNow, March 04, 2025

"A closely watched civil trial that began in #NorthDakota last week could bankrupt Greenpeace and chill #EnvironmentalActivism as the climate crisis continues to deepen. The multimillion-dollar lawsuit by #EnergyTransfer, the oil corporation behind the #DakotaAccessPipeline, claims Greenpeace organized the mass protests and encampment at Standing Rock between 2016 and 2017 aimed at stopping construction of the project.

"Although the uprising at Standing Rock was led by #Indigenous #WaterDefenders, Energy Transfer is instead going after Greenpeace for $300 million in damages — an amount that could effectively shutter the group’s U.S. operations. 'This case is not just an obvious and blatant erasure of #IndigenousLeadership, of #IndigenousResistance,' says Deepa Padmanabha, a senior legal adviser for #GreenpeaceUSA. 'It is an attack on the broader movement and all of our First Amendment rights to free speech and #PeacefulProtest.'"

Watch / listen / read transcript:
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/3/4/greenpeace
#ViewerSupportedNews #StandWithStandingRock #WaterIsLife #NoDAPL #KelcyWarren #Trump #BigOil #CorporateColonialism #BigOilAndGas #EnvironmentalRacism #StandingRock #SLAPPs #NoDAPL #WaterIsLife #SLAPPsLawsuits #SilencingDissent #ACAB #EnergyTransfer #UnicornRiot #CriminalizingDissent #ACAB #Blackwater #ErikPrince

Saulteau First Nation in northeast B.C. is reclaiming abandoned oil wells to restore traditional lands. The initiative, Aski Reclamation, has planted over 9,000 trees, restoring biodiversity and bringing back medicinal plants. This effort not only repairs environmental damage but also strengthens the Nation’s connection to their land.

@goodnews

#GoodNews #IndigenousLeadership #EnvironmentalReclamation #SaulteauFirstNation #LandRestoration
https://thenarwhal.ca/aski-saulteau-first-nation-oil-wells-reclamation/

@Toastie So happy to come across you here. This article on #IndigenousLeadership is really great and important - it’s not just about indigenous knowledge, and definitely not about extracting bits of it, but leadership. I hope you don’t mind but it really chimes with this (by me), about how the climate emergency is really a Tragedy of the NON Commons - the wrong people are in charge

#Indigenous #Commons

https://medium.com/@p.vonhellermann/the-tragedy-of-the-non-commons-4bfad884cdbe

Mongabay editor Latoya Abulu joins the Mongabay Newscast to discuss her visit to the United Nations conference on biodiversity in Montreal that occurred in December 2022.

Latoya shares the details on the landmark Kunming-Montreal Biodiversity Framework, which nearly 200 nations agreed to, toward halting and reversing global biodiversity loss by 2030.

#Podcast #Biodiversity #ClimateChange #News #Environment #Conservation #IndigenousRights #IndigenousLeadership

https://news.mongabay.com/2023/01/podcast-at-cop-15-biodiversity-finance-indigenous-rights-and-corporate-influence/

"As nearly 200 countries struggle to negotiate a new plan for nature conservation at the United Nations’ Biodiversity Conference in Montreal, Canada, known as COP15, Indigenous-led guardian programs in Canada may offer tangible successes in protecting crucial lands and waterways."

Chris Arsenault reports. This article is published in collaboration with Grist.

#COP15 #News #Environment #ClimateChange #IndigenousLeadership #Conservation #Biodiversity

https://news.mongabay.com/2022/12/amid-struggling-cop15-talks-indigenous-leaders-from-canada-offer-some-solutions/