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Exxon secrets
http://exxonsecrets.org/maps.phpCreated by:
GreenpeaceStart/end:
2005 - present
Status:
online
Type:
Monitoring
Topic:
Transparency & accountability
Subtopic:
Environment
The website visualize the invisible connections between Exxon Mobil and and not-so independent organizations and think-tanks that have worked against solutions to global warming and climate change. This project pretends to show how ExxonMobil is quietly funding these organizations by exposing the perfidious network of connections between ExxonMobil and the organizations and people that benefit from their funding. Developed by Josh On (http://www.futurefarmers.com/josh/index.html) and Amy Balkin (http://www.tomorrowmorning.net/) for Greenpeace, as a research tool for journalists and the interested public, Exxon Secrets is Documenting Exxon-Mobil’s funding of climate change skeptics and provides a research database of information on the corporate funded anti-environmental movement. The tool is based on Josh On’s previous project “They Rule”, but in contrast to this, Exxon Secrets is specifically designed to be a research database of information on the corporate funded anti-environmental movement.