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Ignoring the elephant in the room? Why financial transparency is necessary to finance development
Sustainable development goals are wishful thinking unless we finance them. Financial transparency and taxes are the keys to finance development. Did you know that one mechanism that can fight financial secrecy already exists? It is low cost, effective, and targeted to use. It will show where the money is built up. The only thing missing […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Shell reports 2015 payments to governments using open data
In April 2016 Royal Dutch Shell became the first United Kingdom-incorporated oil, gas or mining company to submit its report to the UK company registrar Companies House under the UK’s 2014 Reports on Payments to Governments Regulations (as amended 2015). Shell’s report discloses details of payments made in 2015 to government bodies in 24 countries […]