<![CDATA[Last week Greenpeace lost a case in court that could potentially put an end to the US branch of the organization. Greenpeace had been sued by Energy Transfer Partners (ETP), the company that built the Dakota Access Pipeline after protests which Greenpeace supported cost the company months of delays and hundreds of millions of dollars. Those delays and losses weren't accidental, they were strategic. The whole effort to stop the construction of the pipeline was aimed at making it so difficult and costly that the company would finally give up.]]>