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The Kill Step, Part Five: “It’s part of the treaty.”
As Energy Transfer tries to prove its case against Greenpeace, the tribe is erased from the story.
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The Kill Step, Part Six: “We believed that to be true.”
Amidst Energy Transfer’s claims, a return to what it was all about in the first place: the water.
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The Kill Step, Part Seven: “They’re Scumbags.”
This is the final installation of a seven-part series produced in partnership with Grist as a companion to the SLAPP’d season of the Drilled podcast. You can see all seven pieces together in a beautiful layout over on Grist’s site, where you’ll also find other great climate stories. You can also find the rest of […]
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SLAPP’d Episode 5 | Sacred Sites
The question of whether or not Energy Transfer destroyed sacred sites when building the Dakota Access Pipeline was never up to either the pipeline company or Greenpeace, but the tribe.
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The Kill Step, Part One: “They’re Waiting for Someone to Wink”
Standing Rock was an Indigenous-led movement. How did Greenpeace wind up taking the fall for it?
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The Kill Step, Part Two: “What the hell is this bullshit?
Energy Transfer tasked its security and law firms with building a RICO case against protestors almost as soon as Standing Rock began.
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The Kill Step, Part Three: “You’re Going to Fight This.”
At one point, Energy Transfer offered Greenpeace a settlement…if they would walk back their statements in support of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe’s claims.
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SLAPP’d
For seven years Energy Transfer has pursued a $300 million conspiracy lawsuit against Greenpeace, alleging that one of the world’s largest environmental nonprofits was pulling the strings behind the most significant Indigenous uprising in half a century. The original lawsuit, filed as a RICO case in federal court, argued that it was Greenpeace — not […]
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PHMSA Report on Dakota Access Pipeline Spills Since 2017
Report from the federal Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration on the number of spills from Energy Transfer’s Dakota Access Pipeline since it was put into service in 2017.