Big energy and mining groups 'hide accounts using secrecy jurisdictions'
More than a third of the subsidiaries owned by major energy and mining companies including Shell, BP and Glencore are based in “secrecy jurisdictions” where company accounts are not publicly available,...
View ArticleBP and Glencore among 10 condemned in report on tax secrecy
The report by Publish What You Pay (PWYP), a pressure group campaigning for greater tax transparency, criticises the likes of BP and Glencore for deliberately using opaque subsidiaries “to facilitate...
View ArticleShell actief in belastingparadijzen
Oliemaatschappij Shell heeft ruim honderd dochtermaatschappijen in erkende belastingparadijzen als Jersey, de Caymaneilanden, Bermuda en Barbados.read more
View ArticleThe EITI: How to see results on the ground!
In democracies, governments, Medias and citizens trough the parliament, the NGOs and social networks have a say in the way the country’s wealth is being managed and exploited. The process of...
View ArticleNorway’s national oil company Statoil withholds support from US...
Norwegian state-owned oil company Statoil has formally distanced itself from a U.S. oil industry lawsuit that seeks to scrap a landmark transparency and anti-corruption law established in the United...
View ArticleMajor oil company breaks with trade group over SEC disclosure lawsuit
Norwegian oil-and-gas giant Statoil is distancing itself from petroleum industry litigation to scuttle Securities and Exchange Commission rules (SEC) that will force oil and mining companies to...
View ArticleDutch government could undermine transparency laws while Shell’s payment...
As the scandal grows around a Nigerian oil deal involving Shell and Italian firm Eni who made a US$1.1 billion payment that ended up in the accounts of a company controlled by a corrupt former Nigerian...
View ArticleOil Companies Should Call off Their Assault on Transparency
Ten years ago, an unlikely coalition of governments, citizens' groups and oil, gas and mining companies known as the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) was set up to fight corruption...
View ArticleNorway shows transparency leadership by releasing first EITI report
This week Norway, the first OECD country to implement the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), took an important step by publicly releasing its first EITI report disclosing all...
View ArticleCitizens’ groups call for oil companies to drop anti-transparency lawsuit
You can also view this press release in PDFLONDON, February 25, 2013 — Ahead of Tuesday’s international board meeting of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) in Oslo, civil society...
View ArticlePWYP Norway capacity building programme – applications open
Applications for TRACE (Transparency and Accountability in Extractive Industries), a capacity building programme run by PWYP Norway, have opened.It is aimed at civil society organisations, journalists...
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