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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 […]
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 […]
Missing tax refunds from Zambian government directly affects mining communities
Africa’s largest copper mine is owed over 75% of its tax refunds from the Zambian government, Publish What You Pay (PWYP) Zambia has discovered. The Kansanshi mine, owned by Kansanshi Mining PLC and ZCCM, is still waiting to receive millions of US dollars in Value Added Tax (VAT) refunds from the Zambian Revenue Agency. Despite […]
Using Illicit Financial Flows to increase accountability
In 1994, Illicit Financial Flows (IFFs) were a major threat to South Africa’s development agenda. Today, Africa’s huge external debt problem can be partially blamed on lost revenue due to illicit flows. A United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) report noted that Africa’s external debt stood at $279 billion in 2008 and that debt […]
Drilling for Peace
The violent price of oil exploitation in the Middle East and North Africa 17 December 2010 marked the day when Tunisian street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire in the city of Sidi Bouzid; a desperate reaction against a corrupt government that took place in a resource-curse-ridden area of Tunisia. On 27 January 2011, […]
Gebran Bassil when asked about oil deal: No deal!
This article was originally posted by LOGI and can be read here Lebanese civil society asked the Lebanese Minister of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants, Gebran Bassil, during a public conference to clarify fears and rumors that could lead to corruption in Lebanon’s oil and gas sector … more information and his reaction below: On September […]
Transparency Agreement – A Tool for Multinational Transactions
• Tax administrations do not have access to the entire document trail within multinational companies today • The Transparency Agreement can change this, on a sampling basis, so that tax administrations obtain the insight they need • The Transparency Agreement can be used by individual countries, or by groups of countries unilaterally Written by: Frian […]
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 […]
Digging for the missing $15 billion of diamond revenue in Zimbabwe
When President Mugabe announced on his 92nd birthday, 21st February 2016, that $15 billion worth of revenues generated by the diamond industry had gone missing, the majority of Zimbabweans believed him. Zimbabwe is among the world’s ten largest producers of diamonds. It is also one of the world’s poorest countries, ranked 156 in the 2014 […]
The Panama Papers: Zimbabwe must not waste this opportunity
Zimbabwe, like many other mineral rich developing countries, isn’t seeing many benefits from the extraction of its mineral wealth. In fact, in 2015, Zimbabwe lost $500 million according to the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ). Moreover, Africa is losing as much as $50 billion per annum to illicit financial flows. These dramatic numbers show that […]
Digging Deeper into the Panama Papers in Indonesia
The Panama Papers, with their revelation of 140 world politicians having offshore companies in 21 tax havens, have caused an uproar in Indonesia as they have exposed a number of influential people from Indonesia. The Panama Papers are a set of 11.5 million secret document obtained from the leak of Mossack Fonseca’s communication server. The […]