How We Got Here: Standing Rock, Greenpeace, and the $666 Million Lawsuit
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Pushkin Industries
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🗓️ 3 June 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Greenpeace, only tangentially involved in the Standing Rock protests, faces a staggering $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. Indigenous water protector Cody Hall, who was a key figure during the protests and initially targeted in the lawsuit, walks us through the 2016-2017 events and how the lawsuit began.
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| 0:00.0 | A small |
| 0:01.0 | water is white! |
| 0:03.0 | Winnieway Tony! |
| 0:04.0 | Water is light! |
| 0:06.0 | Many week joining. |
| 0:07.0 | Water is light. |
| 0:09.0 | A small crowd of people gathered on the side of North Dakota Highway 1806, just north of the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. |
| 0:17.0 | A line of highway patrol officers were standing between them and a construction site. |
| 0:23.3 | Cody Hall, a member of the Cheyenne River Sioux tribe, was in the crowd. |
| 0:27.4 | Those bulldozers were up and running, and we saw them moving the earth. |
| 0:34.8 | If those bulldozers were allowed to continue, a massive drill would soon bore a hole |
| 0:40.9 | underneath the Missouri River to make way for the Dakota Access Pipeline. |
| 0:46.1 | The tension was so thick that something was going to happen physically. |
| 0:55.9 | And I remember thinking, I was like, oh gosh, people are really at their point. |
| 1:06.8 | I'm sitting there, you know, kind of pacing back forward. |
| 1:10.5 | I happen to look over to my right. |
| 1:13.9 | And I saw the women and they were singing their death song. |
| 1:25.1 | And in our culture, when you sing your death song, that means you are obviously not afraid to die. |
| 1:34.0 | And then all of a sudden a group of women went and jumped the barbed wire fence. |
| 1:41.4 | Nobody had planned this. |
| 1:43.3 | The fence marked the edge of the area where police |
| 1:45.5 | were allowing protest. Beyond it lay the construction site and open grasslands. I was like, |
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