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Oil and gas drama in Lebanese Parliamentary workshop unearths three underlying issues in sector
On August 23, drama and havoc broke out in a workshop hosted by the Lebanese Parliament’s energy committee. Accusations of lack of coordination and transparency between Mohammad Qabani, head of the parliamentary energy committee, and members of the Lebanese Petroleum Administration (LPA) quickly deteriorated and led to the LPA’s withdrawal from the meeting. While a […]
Breaking the Norm: A wake-up call for Lebanese Civil Society
Mistrust, anger, accusations, secrecy, and frustration are but some of the vocabulary that civil society in Lebanon should feel pretty comfortable using when asked to describe the prenatal condition of its oil and gas sector. Amidst the bickering of those entrusted with overseeing the smooth running of the nascent sector, the Lebanese public stands on […]
Lebanon oil and gas political deal: LOGI demands clarifications and transparency
When conversations are held behind closed doors, especially in Lebanon, suspicion heightens. In July and, reportedly, again in August 2016 Speaker of the Parliament Nabih Berri met with Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil to smooth tensions and disagreement over how Lebanon’s oil and gas sector should move forward. By some accounts a “deal” was reached, yet […]
With Mandatory Disclosures, More Open, Granular Oil Price Data
This blog was also posted on the Natural Resource Governance Institute website and the Open Oil website. It was written by David Mihalyi and Anton Rühling. Many oil-rich countries’ governments reap huge and notoriously opaqueproduction revenues. In the past, transparency initiatives were limited to exposing tax payments. However, EITI reports and company disclosures are exposing […]
Vote for our sessions at the OGP Summit
Join us in putting transparency in the extractives on the OGP Summit’s agenda by voting for the three PWYP sessions below! Oil, gas and mining injustices – stories from the underground Civic space restrictions and activism on natural resource governance Space for civil society is closing around the world. In resource-rich countries, activists work in […]
The resource curse of indigenous peoples
How the transparency agenda could reverse unjust exploitation of indigenous territories Ivan Aribalov is an Evenki reindeer herder who lives on the vast steppes of the Sakha Republic in Siberia. His grandfather herded 14,000 domesticated reindeer, which he bred for clothes and food – a job their family have been doing for generations. When the […]
Indigenous communities and their right to self-determination
Latin America and the Caribbean have a great diversity of indigenous peoples, with almost 600 peoples representing 12.8% of the general population and even 40% of the population in rural areas. In this same region, there’s also been an intense development of oil, gas and mining activities – especially in the last three decades – […]
Join the hearing on extended country-by-country reporting this summer
This article was originally posted on the PWYP Norway website There are mechanisms against the Panama leak. The Ministry of Finance is scheduling the most important hearing which can give transparency into companies for “summer.” Urgent Rasmus Hansson from MDG (Environmental Green Party) is tired of The Ministry of Finance wasting time. Hansson refers to […]
How PWYP-Indonesia is Turning Extractives Transparency into Accountability
The Importance of Project by Project Disclosure This blog was originally posted on the PWYP-US site on July 28, 2016. Indonesia’s vast natural resources wealth includes oil, gas, bauxite, silver, and gold. Indonesia is the world’s second largest tin producer, and one of the top five producers of copper and nickel. The extractives sector plays […]
It’s Official – the SEC rule has been published in the US
The long-awaited rule released by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on 27th June 2016, known as Section 1504, is a historic achievement and a significant step forward for transparency in the extractive sectors. The final rule was published in the Federal Register on 27th July, 2016 and becomes effective starting 26th September, 2016. The […]
Panama Papers reveal secret offshore deals deprive Africa of billions in natural resource dollars
New evidence shows oil, gas & mining firms use loopholes and avoid tax depriving communities of much-needed resource income The latest Panama Papers leaks by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) reveal that Mossack Fonseca has played a significant role in oil, gas and mining deals in Africa that have sparked public allegations of […]
A global transparency wave: the SEC rule and Indonesia
Last month, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) passed a rule that will require resource extraction issuers to disclose the payments that they make to governments for the commercial development of oil, gas and minerals resources. This is a significant step forward also for Indonesia as several companies listed in the US operate in […]