The National Center for Public Policy Research has challenged Greeneeace’s assertion that donations affect a group’s policy positions. Greenpeace has criticized groups which accept donations from Exxon/Mobil, because the company often supports positions at odds with those of Greenpeace.
NEW YORK (Reuters) — Exxon Mobil gave more than $2 million in 2006 to groups Greenpeace says are global warming skeptics, even as the oil company campaigned to improve its climate-unfriendly image.
Nevertheless, Exxon (Charts, Fortune 500), the world’s largest publicly traded company, cut its donations to such groups by more than 40 percent from 2005.
The company still funds about 40 “skeptic groups,” according to the report from Greenpeace, but Exxon disputed that many of the organizations were “global warming deniers.”
The NCPPR, holds that a group that claims, as Greenpeace does, that a advocacy group positions can be bought, should immunize herself from such a charge by having transparent donations. Yet Greenpeace does not reveal the indentity of her donors.
Today The National Center for Public Policy Research is challenging Greenpeace and its affiliates to disclose the sources and amounts of its 2006 donations exceeding $50,000. If it does so, The National Center for Public Policy Research will do the same.
We’re making this challenge in light of allegations in Greenpeace’s May 17 report, “ExxonMobil’s Continued Funding of Global Warming Denial Industry,” which suggests that it is improper for 41 groups, including The National Center for Public Policy Research, to accept contributions from ExxonMobil because the positions of at least some of them on climate issues is not precisely in accordance with those of Greenpeace.
It is time for Greenpeace to either come clean with who funds her, or shut-up about other groups’s funding.
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