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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 […]
A hot summer for extracting oil, gas and mining data – Q&A
This is the second in a two-part Q&A about PWYP’s Data Extractors programme, its progress and its potential to help PWYP members seize the opportunities of open data. The programme’s manager James Royston, PWYP Advocacy Officer, spoke with Jed Miller, a longtime digital strategist and PWYP colleague who helped facilitate the Data Extractors workshops in […]
PWYP-US Workshop 2 – Calculating and visualizing USEITI data using QGIS
This blog was originally posted on www.ExtractAFact.org on July 11, 2016. On June 7, Publish What You Pay – United States held the second training workshop on using extractives data and QGIS, an open source GIS mapping application. This time around, we delved deeper into visualizing data, and explored how to calculate a new data […]
Protecting civil society space is key to stopping human rights abuses
New UN Human Rights Council resolution protecting civil society organisations is a step forward.
PWYP-US kicks off data skills training series: Workshop 1 – Data Organization and GIS Basics
This blog was originally posted on www.extractafact.org on June 3, 2016. On May 19, Publish What You Pay – United States (PWYP-US) hosted the first of two data skills training workshops to explore ways of using the USEITI data with the open source QGIS mapping software. In the first session, our trainer, University of Maryland […]
Mining ban in Indonesia can restore millions of hectares of protected and conserved forest land
An immediate prohibition will positively impact Indonesia’s mining sector governance Publish What You Pay (PWYP) Indonesia is calling for a mining moratorium, meaning a temporary ban on activity, to immediately regulate the problematic mining situation permits on conservation and protected forest land. The permit moratorium based on experience in the Indonesian province of Aceh since […]
Q&A: Mining new company data with PWYP’s Data Extractors
It is a historic year for the Publish What You Pay (PWYP) movement, as oil and mining companies begin to issue new and newly-detailed reports on their payments to governments. The anticipated windfall of data is the result of new regulations in Europe and Canada, and similar transparency requirements are likely to come into effect […]
Brexit must not undermine global progress on extractive industry transparency
By a slim majority, United Kingdom citizens have voted for the UK to leave the European Union and have brought about the resignation of Prime Minster David Cameron. The UK, the European Union and much of the world look set for a period of renewed economic and political instability, rather than the steady and purposeful […]
Malawi’s Mining Fiscal Regime – have we been consulted?
On Friday 27 May 2016, Hon. Goodall E. Gondwe, Minister of Finance, Economic Planning and Development, announced in his budget statement that Malawi’s “out of tune” mining fiscal regime, as he described it, will be updated. The Minister explained: I shall be presenting to this House, Mr. Speaker, Sir, a bill that aims at providing […]
Why Ukraine needs mandatory disclosures legislation
After being accepted as an EITI Candidate country in October 2013, Ukraine’s first UAEITI report was published in December 2015. The report covered the oil and gas sector, with both production and transportation, for the 2013 financial year. While it was a significant step towards more transparency in Ukraine’s extractive sector, the impact of the […]