US court: Greenpeace must pay 345 million to Energy Transfer

A judge in the US state of North Dakota today made official the sentence against Greenpeace, which will have to pay $345 million in damages and interest to the company Energy Transfer, operator of an oil pipeline it had opposed. This was reported by Afp. This decision represents a severe blow for the environmental association committed to the fight against climate change, which in this case denounced the desire of a US hydrocarbon operator to "silence" it by sending it into ruin.

The ruling concludes a years-long legal case that pitted the environmental organisation against the company Energy Transfer. Greenpeace has already disputed that it did not have the funds to pay.