From the Daily Caller
Nick Pope
Contributor
One of Greenpeace's original founders told the Daily Caller News Foundation that he would like to see Greenpeace USA lose a lawsuit that threatens the organization's survival.
Patrick Moore was listed as one of Greenpeace's original founders in 2007, before the organization tried to distance itself from him. Large-scale lawsuit filed. The company is filing a lawsuit in North Dakota seeking $300 million in damages from Greenpeace USA, which or its entities incited mass protests against the Energy Transfer Dakota Access Pipeline, funded various attacks aimed at disrupting the project, and A smear campaign against the company was planned, its development.
“They have to embrace real science…They ignore extremely important facts and then make up lies to replace them. So, yes, I hope they learn from that. “Science is about truth, and then you decide what you want policy. These people, they take it upon themselves to decide the policy, and then they lie about the underlying science and it completely taints the science of much of the world, especially the Western world… I would say, they've become kind of spoiled. Bad kids, they don't have good science. (Related: Eco-activist who vandalized Stonehenge recounts being bullied by fellow Americans who chanted “oil”)
Moore told DCNF that Greenpeace USA “certainly deserves” to lose the lawsuit. “They're basically trying to destroy transportation and a lot of other things. There's no question that pipelines are the safest way to move liquids, especially flammable liquids. There's no question about it.
Moore later played an “important role” in Greenpeace's Canadian branch, but he left the organization in 1986 because he felt it had become too radical, according to Greenpeace. Although Greenpeace only listed him as an original founder in 2007, there is now an entire website dedicated to explaining that Moore does not represent the organization and is not an original founder.
Energy Transfer's billionaire executive chairman Kelcy Warren is behind the company's lawsuit, The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday. Warren, who has said green activists should be “cut out of the gene pool,” believes climate activists pose a major threat to the energy industry and says he's not afraid to pursue them for the problems they've caused the company, including the Dakota Access Pipeline.
Meanwhile, some top Greenpeace leaders in the U.S. are engaged in an internal battle over what kind of settlement with the company would be acceptable, according to the Wall Street Journal. However, even if Energy Transfer wins the lawsuit, it may be difficult to enforce penalties against Greenpeace's central coordinating body in the Netherlands because the entity does not hold assets in the United States.
Representatives for Greenpeace USA did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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