Talking to the Host of Drilled about the Legal Battles around Standing Rock

Protests around the construction of the now complete Dakota Access
Pipeline brought national attention to Energy Transfer, the company
that built and owns the pipeline and funded private security
against the protestors. Energy Transfer sued the nonprofit
Greenpeace for hundreds of millions of dollars. The company claimed
that the Standing Rock movement was not Indigenous-led
environmental activism but a conspiratorial effort by Greenpeace.
Reporter Alleen Brown is spending this season of her podcast,
Drilled, looking into the lawsuit and the message that legal
actions like this send to activists.  Recommended reading:
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