Science Museum cut ties with Equinor
* The [UK] Science Museum has been [compelled] to cut ties with oil giant
Equinor over its sponsor’s environmental record.*
The oil company used its donations to partly gag the museum as regards
the most important scientific issue of our time: the harm to the whole
world done by fossil fuels, including those extracted by Equinor.
It may be true that such gag clauses are "reciprocal and standard",
not that does not mean they are harmless. Perhaps most of them do
little harm, but in this case it can be deadly.
Even without an explicit contract committing the museum not to cover
this danger, the desire to get future donations from the company in
the future would tend to corrupt.
The article mentions that other planet roaster companies, such as
Billionaire Polluters and Adani, have given the museum donations.