Exterior of the Morton County Courthouse in Mandan on Feb. 27, 2025. (Michael Achterling/North Dakota Monitor)MANDAN, N.D. (North Dakota Monitor) — The North Dakota Supreme Court on Wednesday denied a petition by Greenpeace to move its legal battle with Energy Transfer out of Morton County.

The organization is asking the North Dakota Supreme Court to move the civil trial brought forth by Energy Transfer to Cass County or elsewhere.

An attorney for a Texas pipeline company says he will show at trial that various Greenpeace entities coordinated delays and disruptions of a controversial oil pipeline’s construction in North Dakota a

The request is the culmination of multiple unsuccessful attempts to convince Southwest Judicial District Judge James Gion that Morton County is the wrong venue for the lawsuit.

Greenpeace provided supplies, intel and training to demonstrators who spent months camping near the Dakota Access Pipeline river crossing in south central North Dakota, employees said in video testimony played to a Morton County jury on Friday.

A behemoth defamation lawsuit brought by the developer of the Dakota Access Pipeline against Greenpeace began its trial in a Mandan courtroom on Monday. Energy Transfer, a Texas-based oil and gas company, accuses Greenpeace of using underhanded means to back demonstrations against the pipeline in 2016 and 2017.

A group of attorneys, activists and academics will be monitoring an upcoming trial between the developer of the Dakota Access Pipeline and Greenpeace to evaluate whether the proceedings comply with

A Lakota organizer said in a video deposition played to jurors Monday that the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe led the protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline, not Greenpeace.