The outcome of the court case in the Netherlands could shape the right to protest worldwide in the coming decades. The figures show a dramatic increase in the legal proceedings that fossil fuel companies are undertaken against activists.
Greenpeace International uses a recently introduced EU directive to try to compensate the costs and damage when the American jury has decided to pay the Energy Transfer to the Energy Transfer more than $ 660 million earlier this year.
The case opened on Wednesday in Amsterdam is the latest round in an increasingly bitter dispute between activists, journalists and groups for freedom of speech and large corporations – for which activists are to use more aggressive legal tactics to try to silence them.
Experts say these so-called cases of slapp [strateške tužbe protiv javnog učešća] on the rise in all areas. The CASE coalition has established an increase in such cases in the last decade and identified more than 1,000 such cases between 2010. and 2023. years.
Greenpeace says that he faced five large legal challenges by petroleum companies in Europe and the USA, which claims they did not necessarily focus on the court’s victory, but to exhaust the resources and suffocating disagreements. The costs and the size of these cases itself are huge, but giant corporations are able to absorb it.
The hearing in Amsterdam is the beginning of what experts expect to be a debt legal process. Greenpeace requires that all the costs and compensation in the North Dakota – which is in progress Energy Transfer Partners, an oil and gas company based in Dallas worth almost 70 billion dollars.
She sued Greenpeace due to defamation and the criminal behavior of demonstrators at Dakota Access 2016. and 2017. years, claiming that the organization “encouraged” people in protests using the “misinformation campaign”.
“Although we are satisfied with the Greenpeace for his actions against us, this victory is a mandane and the entire Dakota who has been able to respect the law and understand the difference between the right to freedom of speech and violations of the law. Considers are responsible for the victory for all of us, “they stated from the company.
Trey Cox, in this case lawyer, said that the jury verdict showed that Greenpeace actions were illegal.
“This is also the day of celebration for the Constitution, the State of North Dakota and Energy Transfer,” he said.
(Vijesti.ba)
