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Talking transparency with a seat at the table
On the same day that Transparency International released its Corruption Perception Index 2016 that ranked Lebanon 136th out of 176th most corrupt countries for the 2nd consecutive year, Lebanon’s Cabinet of Ministers announced that the government intends to adopt the Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative. A positive step towards improving the governance of Lebanon’s extractives sector, […]
Extractive companies publish worldwide payments under UK law
Mandatory reporting by oil, gas and mining companies under European Union country-by-country disclosure laws began in the UK and France in 2016. Key aspects of the reporting requirements – which have equivalents in Norway, Canada and the USA – are especially useful in preventing corruption: granularity (disaggregation by project and by recipient government entity); comprehensiveness […]
Read our interactive story: Rural Women, Empowerment and Mining
Read the interactive version here The villagers of Mwabulambo in northern Malawi first heard about the planned mining activities in their village when the trucks arrived. When the villagers asked what was happening, they were told that a coal-mining facility was going to be running in their neighbourhood for the next two years. The rural […]
Who Owns Oil Rights in the Gulf of Mexico? Use this tool to find out!
This post is sourced from Extract-A-Fact Always on the lookout for interesting data, I was excited when I recently came across a comprehensive trove of data on offshore production in the Gulf of Mexico from the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM).The datasets at data.boem.gov include: Oil production by lease , back to 1996 Owners […]
Making DATA work for communities project
Citizens and communities in extractive areas have the right to know how their finite natural resources are governed. As more and more extractives data is opened to the public, the more challenging it becomes to make these disclosures relevant to local communities. On December 2014, the Philippines released its first Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) […]
Using UK company data as an accountability tool
After well over a decade-and-a-half of campaigning by the Publish What You Pay (PWYP) anti-corruption movement, oil, gas and mining companies are starting to report payments to governments under long-awaited mandatory disclosure rules. By 2019 an estimated 84% or more of the world’s 100 largest oil and gas companies, and at least 58% of the […]
Cameroon is losing millions a year due to tax exemptions
Cameroon is heavily dependent on its extractive industries, and places a particular emphasis on its oil sector. From 2007 to 2009, oil revenues represented more than 25% of its national budget. Even during the 2008 financial crisis, Cameroon kept its national oil revenue average going strong. Over the last five years, Cameroon has exported around […]
Organizations unite to call for Canada to take swift action to end secret companies
Canada must take this opportunity to demonstrate global leadership and implement a public, central registry of the beneficial owners of companies and trusts Ottawa, Canada – December 9th, 2016 Anonymous companies are the getaway vehicles of corruption. Today, over twenty diverse organizations from within and outside of Canada, unite to call on the Government of […]
Open Letter to the French Minister for the Economy and Finance on Open Data
Read the signed pdf version here Mr Michel Sapin, French Minister for the Economy and Finance, 139, Rue de Bercy 75012 Paris Dear Minister, As Publish What You Pay ‘Data Extractors’, we are writing as a group of civil society activists from around the world, united in our desire to use data from the oil, […]
Open Data: the extractive industries case study
Greater transparency is a first and necessary step in the fight against corruption. However, behind this concept of transparency, real issues of accessibility and data quality are at stake. Publishing data in itself is not enough if access is restricted and the format inoperable. To take the process of transparency all the way, this information […]
Extractives data: how the world has changed, and what lies ahead
We’re at the OGP summit in Paris demonstrating how the flurry of extractives data we have seen in the last few years can empower people. It remains difficult to get a full picture of company activities, due to a lack of comparable, openly available data; and an absence of certain data such as contracts. Through […]
