Greenpeace plans to appeal. The group has called the lawsuit an attempt to "weaponize" the courts to silence protest. Prior to the verdict, observers had suggested that a victory for Energy Transfer could bankrupt Greenpeace in the United States — and that was when Energy Transfer was seeking $300 million in damages.

Energy Transfer (NYSE:ET) won a favorable verdict Wednesday as a North Dakota jury awarded hundreds of millions of dollars in damages to the company, which had sued Greenpeace over its role in protests against its Dakota Access pipeline,

Greenpeace USA, Greenpeace International and Greenpeace Fund — of colluding to promote acts including trespassing, violence