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Dakota Access Pipeline Owner Sues Greenpeace For 'Criminal Activity'

Energy Transfer Partners alleges Greenpeace and other "eco-terrorist groups" tried to block its pipeline with "campaigns of misinformation." Greenpeace says the suit is a bid to "silence free speech."
Greenpeace activists hang a banner from the rafters at a bank shareholders' meeting earlier this year in Zurich, calling for it to "STOP DIRTY PIPELINE DEALS!" Also on the banner are hashtags supporting Dakota Access Pipeline protesters. / MICHAEL BUHOLZER / Getty Images

The developer behind the , which for months drew , has sued Greenpeace and several other environmental groups for their role in delaying the pipeline's construction. In it filed in federal court Tuesday, alleges these groups inflicted "billions of dollars in damage" with their "criminal activity and

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