WA museum tells staff ‘almost all of us are guilty’ of burning fossil fuels in email defending Woodside partnership
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The head of the Western Australian Museum has told staff that burning fossil fuels is something almost all of us are guilty of in one way or another" in an email defending the institution's renewed research partnership with Woodside.
The museum's chief executive, Alec Coles, sent the email to staff before a Woodside-sponsored August open day at the Maritime Museum - one of WA Museum's seven locations. It came amid public criticism of the extension of the longstanding collaboration", in which the gas company supports the museum's biodiversity research along the WA coastline.
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