Section 1504 Final Rule – Fact Sheet
PWYP-US Releases fact sheet on Section 1504 Final Rule.
Extract-A-Fact Newsletter – August 2016
August 2016 Finding UK mandatory disclosure reports in one simple step Read on for an easy way to see the full list of mandatory disclosure reports submitted to Companies House Extractives Service in the United Kingdom. Read more… Guest Post – Aleph and beneficial ownership: working up from the ground Financial regulators in many countries already require companies to disclose…
How PWYP-Indonesia is Turning Extractives Transparency into Accountability
The Importance of Project by Project Disclosure 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 an outsized role in the Indonesian economy: in 2014, oil, gas, and minerals were responsible for a third…
Workshop 2 – Calculating and visualizing USEITI data using QGIS
This post originally appeared on www.ExtractAFact.org 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 point from imported datasets in QGIS. The first training…
PWYP-US holds second training workshop on visualizing USEITI data
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 point from imported datasets in QGIS. Read more on www.extractafact.org
Senate and Investor Champions of Section 1504 React to Strong SEC Final Rule
Champions of Section 1504 of the Dodd-Frank Act react to the release of the Security and Exchange Commission’s Final Rule. “Today is a watershed moment as the United States reclaims its position as a leader in the effort to increase global accountability and transparency. This final rule will enable citizens and local civil society organizations to hold government leaders accountable…
SEC Releases Strong Oil, Gas and Mining Transparency Rule and Restores US Leadership – June 27, 2016
Download this press release as a pdf Read The Final Rule FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 27, 2016 Contact: Jana Morgan, Director – jmorgan@pwypusa.org Office 202-496-1189 – Mobile 703-795-8542 SEC Releases Strong Oil, Gas and Mining Transparency Rule and Restores US Leadership Washington, D.C. – Publish What You Pay – United States (PWYP-US) celebrates today’s release by the Securities and Exchange…
PWYP-US kicks off data skills training series
On May 19, 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 Geographical Sciences PhD candidate, Diana Parker, introduced the basics of organizing data as well as an introductory understanding of geographic information systems (GIS)….
PWYP-US kicks off data skills training series: Workshop 1 – Data Organization and GIS Basics
This post originally appeared on www.extractafact.org on June 3, 2016 On May 19, 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 Geographical Sciences PhD candidate, Diana Parker, introduced the basics of organizing data as…
Welcome to Extract-A-Fact
This post originally appeared on www.extractafact.org on June 3, 2016 Publish What You Pay – United States (PWYP-US) is excited to launch the Extract-A-Fact project! “Are we getting a good deal on our natural resources?” Extract-A-Fact will provide training modules detailing useful and creative ways to find, analyze, and visualize extractives data, as well as blog posts from PWYP-US and…