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Energy Transfer can expect its court fight with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe over the tribe’s efforts to shut down the Dakota Access pipeline several years ago is not finished.
The Tribe intends to appeal a federal judge’s ruling that was in favor of Energy Transfer, the Dallas-based company that owns the pipeline. The judge was informed this week of the tribe’s decision to appeal his ruling in a lawsuit against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The suit contended the pipeline was in operation without a valid easement.
Energy Transfer scored a court victory in March when a jury found the environmental activist group, Greenpeace, was liable for hundreds of milions of dollars in damages over the role it played in the disastrous 2016 and 2017 protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline.
The Texas company filed suit against Red Warrior Camp, claiming it was a front for Greenpeace and cconducted a misinformation campaign with false claims that the Dakota Access Pipeline would cross the sovereignland of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.
