Energy Transfer Partners, the company behind DAPL, is showing how to fight fractivism and the radical environmental enterprise with an overdue RICO lawsuit.

This is somewhat old news given the fact the lawsuit was filed two weeks ago, but it’s taken me that long to get through the 187 page complaint filed by DAPL owner Energy Transfer’s against its radical tormentors. A copy of the complaint may be found here and, as usual, I have highlighted the most important parts as I see them. It is a comprehensive allegation that opponents of DAPL, led by Greenpeace, operated as a racketeering enterprise. All I can say is the; it’s about damned time the industry played hardball with this enterprise and this is the way it should continue to fight back against all of fractivism.

The targets of the lawsuit are trying to dismiss it as a frivolous attempt to intimidate opponents, of course, as they always do because that’s their own standard practice; to project onto others what they themselves do routinely. No one who has read the 187 page complaint, loaded up with details, could possibly reach that conclusion, though. This complaint is extraordinarily blunt, detailed and documented. It reads like a mystery novel in places as the attorneys who drafted it methodically lay out their Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) allegations and evidence. 

Read more:

http://naturalgasnow.org/long-overdue-dapl-lawsuit-shows-fight-fractivism/