Tag Archives | revenue transparency

Sunshine on the horizon for the oil, gas and mining cash

24 August 2012 in Access to information, Oil and gas, Private sector

Despite heavy lobbying by some of the United States’ most powerful corporations, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has taken a bold decision in support of transparency. The US Chamber of Commerce claimed that to force US oil, gas and mining companies to reveal details of their foreign payments to natural resources’ host governments […]

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Libya: will this be the next Iraq?

14 September 2011 in Africa and Middle East, Oil and gas, People power, Private sector

Antonia Bosanquet, Transparency International’s Arab media specialist, looks at Libya’s future as seen by Arab-language online media. It’s over and the end was cleaner than any of the NATO allies dared to hope; instead of the “grubby compromise” between rebels and Ghaddafi loyalists that was predicted by analysts, the rebels surprised the world by storming […]

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Message from WEF Latin America

2 May 2011 in Americas, Private sector

This post was written by  Delia Ferreira Rubio, a member of TI’s board of directors. On April 27th I was in Rio de Janeiro for the World Economic Forum’s regional meeting, where I attended three very different sessions that were all relevant to our movement.

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Oil wealth and revolution

1 March 2011 in Africa and Middle East, Climate Change, Financial Markets, G20, Private sector

Today Transparency International publishes its report on the transparency of oil and gas companies. The report shows that the majority of companies do not reveal payments to governments in countries where the extract oil and gas. A good example for what this means in practice is Libya: A quarter of the country’s economy come from […]

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Extractive Industries: The challenge of disclosing where the money goes

28 April 2010 in Africa and Middle East, Events

From April 15-16, 2010 the board of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative met in Berlin. Eduardo Bohorquez, head of the Mexican TI chapter and board member of the EITI, as well as François Valérian, head of Private Sector Programmes for Transparency International, were there (version française versión en español) April 16 marked a decisive day for […]

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