“We will not back down:” Court tells Greenpeace to pay billion dollar damages bill to oil and gas company

A jury in the US has hit Greenpeace with $US660 million ($A1.04 billion) in damages for defamation and other claims for the green group’s part in a campaign led by First Nations people against an oil pipeline in 2016 and 2017.

The Standing Rock protests marked a major turning point in the…