*|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* PWYP-US Extract-A-Fact Newsletter October 2017 Why is Niger still losing out to Areva? In 2013, Oxfam and ROTAB, a Nigerien NGO – both members of Publish What You Pay – launched a campaign denouncing the unbalanced partnership between Areva and Niger and calling for the renegotiation of the contracts. Oxfam and ROTAB specifically pointed that Areva’s contracts included a sweetheart clause enabling Areva to…
This post originally appeared on politicsofpoverty.oxfamamerica.org on September 29, 2017 How detecting and deterring “transfer mispricing” in Zambia’s billion dollar mining sector can boost government coffers in a time of fiscal crisis. Corporate tax dodging is not a victimless act. When corporations employ aggressive means to avoid paying tax in developing countries, citizens inevitably foot the bill. Corporate tax avoidance…
In 2014, Niger announced it had successfully renegotiated uranium extraction contracts with French state-owned company Areva to secure a greater share of the wealth deriving from their uranium resources. Three years later, an analysis carried out by Oxfam based on data released by Areva calls into question the benefits for Niger in the contract renegotiation.This analysis was carried out as…
PWYP-US Extract-A-Fact Newsletter August 2017 A Guide to Navigating Canada’s New Oil, Gas, and Mining Disclosures The hundreds of ESTMA reports include disclosures from Chinese state-owned firm CNOOC on Canadian and global operations, ExxonMobil on operations within Canada, and Chevron on operations in Canada and Nigeria. This post will show you step-by-step how to access those reports. Read more… This…
By Joseph Williams, Natural Resource Governance Institute This post originally appeared on www.resourcegovernance.org on June 13, 2017 Statoil became the first companyto report under a mandatory payment disclosure regime in early 2015, undermining U.S. oil lobby arguments. Shell, which had fought so vigorously against project-level payment disclosure laws, published its first payments to governments report under U.K. law in April…
Hundreds of oil, gas and mining companies have now reported their payments to governments, as required by the Canadian Extractive Sector Transparency Measures Act (ESTMA). Citizens now have access to a massive pool of previously hidden payment data that can help fuel their efforts to hold governments and companies accountable for how their natural resources are managed. The hundreds of…
PWYP-US Extract-A-Fact Newsletter April 2017 Extract-A-Fact is dedicated to empowering stakeholders to put extractives data to use. Over the next year, we would like to host a series of training webinars aimed at providing the skills you need to use oil, gas and mining data. To help us design our upcoming webinars, please fill out this survey. To participate in our previous…
Friends of transparency and good governance – it’s time to activate! The regulation implementing the groundbreaking anti-corruption law, the Cardin-Lugar Provision of the Dodd Frank Act (Section 1504), is in critical danger of being repealed by the House and Senate. This law allows citizens in resource rich countries to ‘follow the money’ and hold their governments accountable for graft, waste…
This post also appears on Extract-A-Fact In our first video training session, we presented a walkthrough of how to organize USEITI data for use in the open source mapping software QGIS. Fortunately, that dataset included geographic identifiers called Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) county codes–five digit codes identifying counties and county equivalents throughout the United States. However, not every dataset…
PWYP-US Extract-A-Fact Newsletter October 2016 Oil, Gas and Mining Transparency Advocates Join the Data Revolution 2016 is an historic year for transparency advocates and data geeks alike. After fourteen years of campaigning by the global Publish What You Pay (PWYP) coalition, laws requiring oil, gas and mining companies to publicly disclose project-level payments to governments for access to natural resources…