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Extracts from Ofcom Complaint, by Category: Misrepresentation of People’s Views

Extracts from Appendix D: Corporate-funded Organisations Linked to Contributors to the Programme

Organisation	Details
CEI [cont]	In 2005, after media attention on the whole affair, and leaking of documents, Phil Cooney resigned from the White House and went to work for ExxonMobil. On March 19, 2006, The Washington Post reported: “The Competitive Enterprise Institute, which widely publicizes its belief that the earth is not warming … because of the burning of coal and oil, says Exxon Mobil Corp. is a ‘major donor’ largely as a result of its effort to push that position.” (see http://tinyurl.com/mvod4). The CEI has received $2,005,000 from ExxonMobil since 1998 (see ExxonSecrets: http://tinyurl.com/yvbmtz) as well as receiving funding from Ford and General Motors (see DeSmogBlog: http://tinyurl.com/j45yg). [Note: The above figure was accurate when this complaint was submitted. For the up-to-date figure, see: http://tinyurl.com/yvbmtz [ExxonSecrets].]
Congress of Racial Equality or CORE www.core-online.org [Note: Contributors to the film who have links with CORE: Paul Driessen]	A right-leaning civil rights and minority issues organization. Chairman and CEO Roy Innis is an active gun rights activist and has been critical of environmental groups. CORE has received $260,000 from ExxonMobil since 1998 (see ExxonSecrets: http://tinyurl.com/3ceww7). [Note: The above amount was the total ExxonMobil donations figure received from ExxonSecrets researchers at the time that this complaint was submitted in June 2007. Subsequently, new data has been uploaded and data entry and programming errors have been corrected, causing the total figures for some organizations, including CORE, to be somewhat overstated or understated in this complaint. For the accurate updated figures and links to Exxon source documents, see: http://tinyurl.com/3ceww7 [ExxonSecrets].]
Environmental Conservation Organization or ECO http://tinyurl.com/33efbt [Note 1: Contributors to the film who have links with the ECO: Dr Frederick Singer] [Note 2: After this complaint was submitted, the ECO website appears to have been shut down. The above link is to an archive of its home page, which was archived by the Wayback Machine on 15 April 2007.]	An anti-regulation lobby group set up to “to protect private property rights from erosion by excessive environmental regulations” (see ExxonSecrets: http://tinyurl.com/2yr55s).
Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies www.fed-soc.org [Note: Contributors to the film who have links with the Federalist Society: Dr Frederick Singer]	An influential anti-regulation lobby group which The Washington Monthly called “the best-organized, best-funded, and most effective legal network operating in this country” and added, “what gets less attention, however, is that the Society is accomplishing in the courts what Republicans can’t achieve politically” (Jerry Landay: The Federalist Society: The Conservative Cabal That’s Transforming American Law, March 2000). The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies has received $105,000 from ExxonMobil since 1998 (see ExxonSecrets: http://tinyurl.com/yu2aj6). [Note: The above figure was accurate when this complaint was submitted. For the up-to-date figure, see: http://tinyurl.com/yu2aj6 [ExxonSecrets].]
Frontiers of Freedom Institute and Foundation or FoF www.ff.org [Note: Contributors to the film who have links with the FoF: Paul Driessen Dr Frederick Singer]	A lobby group set up to fight environmental regulations, particularly the Endangered Species Act and any law seen as infringing on “property rights.” It has received $1,182,000 from ExxonMobil since 1998 (see ExxonSecrets: http://tinyurl.com/ysyp49). [Note: The above figure was accurate when this complaint was submitted. For the up-to-date figure, see: http://tinyurl.com/ysyp49 [ExxonSecrets].]

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