Hague, Netherlands – Greenpeace presented on Tuesday a case of the Anti -int Court against an American energy company demanding the environmental organization for hundreds of millions, trying for the first time a new board of the European Union to counteract manifestly unfounded cases aimed at harassing civil society.
The European Commission brought extraterritorial safeguards to stop or strategic demands against public participation, last year.
Fossil Fuel Wixine Company Energy Transfer is demanding to Greenpeace for $ 300 million in North Dakota for organizing 2016 protests near the Standing Rock Reserve. The environmental groups and the American Indian tribes organized large -scale protests about the concerns about a possible oil spill that pollutes the water supply of the tribe.
Now, Greenpeace, based in Amsterdam, wants a Dutch court to force energy transfer to salary compensation for the current procedures on Dakota’s access pipe.
“Greenpeace is fighting a devastating lawsuit that aims to prevent us and other civil society organizations to do their job,” said Group’s legal advisor Daniel Simons, to The Associated Press.
The new rules, which entered into force last year, would allow the courts of the 27 Member States to block the application of Slapp demands outside the block and order companies that pay compensation for legal fees.
Greenpeace has asked the Amsterdam district court to declare the procedures of the United States as a slapp and for the transfer of energy to make a public statement to that sense, as well as to salary damages.
The energy transfer will now occur until July to respond to the demand.
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