Yes, according to reliable source, skeptic and materials scientist DV82XL, who quotes a few examples in his comments to Steve Packard’s “Greenpeace on Nuclear Energy: SCIENCE DOES NOT MATTER“.

Of course there is no argument scientific of otherwise that would change the Greenpeace mind-set about nuclear energy, because it’s not about facts, it’s about keeping the donations rolling in. Donations those that they have terrorized into thinking that they will all be glowing in the dark, or (more likely in my opinion) from their sponsors in the carbon fuels sector.

There is no question in my mind that most if not all of the antinuclear movement has been co-opted by those who would suffer loss of revenue from a resurgence of nuclear power. Consider that last year the National Wildlife Federation received a grant from the pro-coal industry Joyce Foundation. The purpose of the $122,000 grant is “to build support in Indiana and Michigan for coal gasification as an alternative to conventional coal-burning power plants. Indiana Wildlife Federation and Michigan United Conservation Clubs would be partners in this effort.” The Union of Concerned Scientists, also received grants from the Joyce Foundation, including one “To promote new policies supporting coal gasification and carbon sequestration for new electric generation in Illinois.” National Resources Defense Council is another recipient of Joyce Foundation largess. It has received “a $437,500 grant from the Joyce Foundation to promote carbon sequestration on coal industry’s behalf.”

It would take an idiot not to see that the Joyce Foundation is acting as a coal industry front and as a conduit for Coal Industry money.

No wonder the old guard Greens that founded these movements are leaving or being forced out; they have listened to the science and recognize the benifits of nuclear. They have become liabilities to the corrupted shells of their old movements.

The following sources are unverified as to accuracy or agendas. All of these tracking efforts suffer from lack of funding so they are greatly challenged to keep up with the flood of money going into such as Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, or Sierra Club.

You can learn more about the activists funding at ActivistCash.com. BTW, their page on the Chicago-based Joyce Foundation appears to be out of date (for tax year ending 12/31/2002), which lists as Director someone named “Barack Obama”.

Some other activist tracking sites are Undueinfluence.com and Discoverthenetworks.org (the latter is a affiliated with conservative author David Horowitz).

UPDATE: Some of this information can be found on the Joyce Foundation website. E.g., look at what you get by following the lead from DV82XL, searching their grants database for “coal gasification”. Another search to examine is “sequestration” where a couple of new midwest names appear. Searching for “coal” I found this — what the heck does NWF have to do with this mission?

National Wildlife Federation

Amount: $337,860.00
Length: 24

For efforts to advance clean energy policies in the Midwest that can deliver real economic revitalization benefits and to support intensive work on coal and electric utility policy in Indiana.

UPDATE: I’ve found what looks to be a solid source for the IRS Form Tax Returns for Exempt Organizations. This is ERI, Economic Research Institute, and their page of Form 990 links for JOYCE FOUNDATION. I’ve not downloaded the most recent 2008 report yet because it is 28 MB — we are sailing in Australia, and are dependent upon bandwidth-capped wireless broadband.

I found the ERI site via software developer IDILOGIC (authors of Federal Money Retreiver – how’s that for a name?) who provide the IT behind Aidpage who run a page on Foundation Grants.

UPDATE: Kirk Sorenson and Rod Adams have been on the Sierra Club/Joyce Foundation trail. Also Pew, Turner, …