Greenpeace must pay over $660 million in damages for property harm and defamation amid the Standing Rock protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline initiative nearly a decade ago.

The climate activist group protested the project between 2016 and 2017, delaying construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline and defaming Energy Transfer, the company behind the project. That deliberation was made by a nine-person North Dakota jury following a three-week trial.

“This win is really for the people of Mandan and throughout North Dakota who had to live through the daily harassment and disruptions caused by the protesters who were funded and trained by Greenpeace,” the company remarked. “It is also a win for all law-abiding Americans who understand the difference between the right to free speech and breaking the law.”

Greenpeace meanwhile announced their intentions to appeal the $660 million decision, claiming that the lawsuit and the subsequent verdict would have a chilling effect on free expression.

“What we saw over these three weeks was Energy Transfer’s blatant disregard for the voices of the Standing Rock Sioux,” Deepa Padmanabha, the senior legal advisor for Greenpeace, said in a statement. “While they also tried to distort the truth about Greenpeace’s role in the protests, we instead reaffirmed our unwavering commitment to non-violence in every action we take.”

The organization has filed a lawsuit of their own in the Netherlands against Energy Transfer, seeking to “recover damages and costs it has suffered” following the “back-to-back, meritless lawsuits demanding hundreds of millions of dollars” from Greenpeace and related entities.