Exclusive: Shell Subsidiary Paid Queensland Museum More Than $10m to Shape Children’s Climate Education

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By Ellen OrmesherDec 7, 2025, 9:01 am76 pts
Shell QGC, one of Australia’s largest gas and coal companies, has paid the Queensland Museum in Brisbane 10.25 million Australian dollars (US$6.94 million) since 2015 to fund educational programmes — aimed at school children as young as nine years old — that fail to clearly identify fossil fuels as the…

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