Greenpeace USA headed to court in North Dakota on Monday, as a trial expected to last about five weeks begins over protests at the construction site of Energy Transfer's (NYSE:ET) Dakota Access Pipeline that delayed the $3.

Feb. 24 (UPI) -- Jury selection began Monday in Dakota Access Pipeline's $300 million lawsuit against Greenpeace USA. A federal lawsuit by the company was dismissed but there is a similar one filed in North Dakota state court in 2019. The trial will take place in Mandan, N.D., which is near Bismarck.

Energy Transfer says Greenpeace used tactics including defamation, vandalism and harassment in an attempt to tarnish the company’s reputation and sink the Dakota Access Pipeline project.