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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 […]
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 […]
Vision 20/20
In 2012 Publish What You Pay adopted a new strategy to reflect the growth over the first ten years of our history. The new strategy needed to represent PWYP’s evolution from working solely on revenue transparency to work along the whole extractive value chain, and our growth in membership, from 6 members about 10 years […]
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 […]