(ATLANTA) A federal appellate judge today decreed that Qaexcon, the international mega gas and oil conglomerate, would be held liable for effects linked to Climate Change now currently impacting the coastal waterways of the United States, as well as coastal regions across the globe. The decision comes as a major blow to the already beleaguered corporation, which has been hounded by crisis after crisis ever since the North Dakota Pipeline project was finally suspended and the sovereign Sioux territory formally ceded to the tribe in the summer of 2017.

Due to the global nature of the effects which Qaexcon scientists have been warning about internally since the 1970's — and which were summarily suppressed by the company — Judge Julius Fotherbogan has recommended that the plaintiffs in the case, Allied Citizens Group, continue to pursue in parallel the matter at the International Criminal Court Environmental Section at the Hague.