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US Congress votes down anti-corruption rule
This week, United States legislators chose to relinquish their country’s leadership role in the global oil, gas and mining transparency movement by undoing a landmark anti-corruption rule. Both the House of Representatives and the Senate passed a motion to roll back the bi-partisan Cardin-Lugar provision, also known as Section 1504 of the Dodd-Frank Act Section […]
People’s Mining Indaba to examine Africa Mining Vision
Press Release by the Economic Justice Network, member of PWYP South Africa Cape Town, February 2017: Over 400 activists who are members of civil society, faith-based organisations, mining-affected and impacted community members, academics and other stakeholders seeking justice in mining and the extractives industry will gather at the Double Tree by Hilton Hotel in Cape […]
Open Message from PWYP Global Coalition to US-listed EITI Companies
Download the full statement here. Open message from Publish What You global coalition To US-listed EITI-supporting companies: Anglo American, AngloGold Ashanti, ArcelorMittal, Barrick Gold, BHP Billiton, BP, Chevron, Conoco Philips, Eni, Exxon Mobil, Freeport-McMoran, Glencore, Goldcorp, Gold Fields, Hess Corporation, Hudbay, Iamgold, Kinross, Kosmos Energy, Marathon Oil, Newmont Mining, Noble Energy, PEMEX, Petrobras, Rio Tinto, […]
This move by the US Congress is good for Exxon, bad for everyone
One of President Trump’s best tools to “drain the swamp” is under threat from his own side. A mere four days after he took office, Republican Congress members began attacking a key piece of anti-corruption legislation. This rule, the Cardin-Lugar provision (also known as Section 1504 of the Dodd-Frank Act), was a bipartisan effort to […]
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 […]