”Freedom of speech is on the line,” says Waniya Locke, a member of Standing Rock Grassroots. “This directly impacts everybody, not just Standing Rock, not just Greenpeace.”

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.

Opponents of the Dakota Access Pipeline demonstrate in Bismarck in August 2016. (Kyle Martin/For the North Dakota Monitor)BISMARCK, N.D. (North Dakota Monitor) — A behemoth defamation lawsuit brought by the developer of the Dakota Access Pipeline against Greenpeace began its trial in a Mandan courtroom on Monday.