Monday, June 16, 2025

Drilled Podcast on how the Standing Rock protest was infilitrated by private security and FBI informants to create their lawsuit

 https://drilled.media/podcasts/drilled/12/s12-ep1

 Greenpeace, which was only tangentially involved in the Standing Rock protests, has been slapped with a $666 million bill for damages...despite the fact that the Dakota Access Pipeline was built, and has been making Energy Transfer millions of dollars for years. How did we get here? Cody Hall, an Indigenous activist who was a key figure during the Standing Rock protests and was initially also targeted in Energy Transfer's suit, walks us through how things went down back in 2016 and 2017, and where this suit began.

I worked for Greenpeace full-time in 1996 and Inila Wakan invited us to Pine Ridge Reservation - I was sent by my boss with one other worker....I was shown a creek polluted by uranium mining. We discussed how the Green Party was too Western - too racist....Our Greenpeace office was shut down because Germany insisted Greenpeace activists should only be volunteers.

https://drilled.media/podcasts/drilled/12/s12-ep02 

 Alleen arrives in North Dakota for jury selection and is shocked watching it play out. The judge won't allow recording in the court, jurors who flat-out say they are biased against activists or are directly involved in the fossil fuel industry are put on the jury.

 I never went to Standing Rock - I already had been arrested eight times for civil disobedience. I did repeatedly promoted the Standing Rock protesters on Twitter and so my Twitter account was deleted very soon after I started it. That was the end of my use of Twitter.

But as an investigative journalist, I'm also supposed to follow the evidence. I know the makeup of the jury. I've read lawyer Trey Cox's own books. This case is stacked against Greenpeace.

I want to believe that Greenpeace will ONLY lose if Energy Transfer proves its case. And I haven’t really seen yet what kind of dirt the pipeline company has dug up.

But if Energy Transfer didn’t find a smoking gun? If Greenpeace loses anyway? Then I want to see how they pull this thing off.

 

 

No comments:

Post a Comment