Newspaper Feature: “Decision on pipeline route could strain Kenya, Total relations”
Differing views on the route the crude oil export pipeline from South Lokichar in northwestern Kenya to the Indian Ocean shoreline should take, could strain relations between the government, Total and other partners…..Continue reading→
Washington DC launch of Oxfam America’s Contract Disclosure Survey 2018
WASHINGTON DC LAUNCH WHEN: Wednesday, June 20, 2018 – 1:00pm – 3:00pm (EST) WHERE: Oxfam America office, 1101 17th Street NW, Washington DC RSVP HERE for in-person or livestream Oxfam America, in partnership with Publish What You Pay United States and Emerging Markets…
LAPSSET: Community Voices Photobook
With the discovery of crude oil in Kenya and Uganda, the government and stakeholders embarked on a plan to construct a heated crude oil pipeline of about 855 kilometres from Lamu to Lokichar to transport the oil. The proposed route…
East and Southern Africa CSO Position on the EITI Processes
The Kenya Civil Society Platform, which is the Publish What You Pay Coalition in Kenya, attended the 2019 Extractives Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI) Global Conference in Paris. At the recently concluded EITI board meeting held in Kyiv, Ukraine 27-28th February…
KCSPOG Publish What You Pay (PWYP) Kenya
KCSPOG is pleased to announce that we are now the Publish What You Pay Kenya Coalition. We are now part of an illustrious family of transparency fighters, united in their quest for an open and accountable extractive sector through campaigns,…
Kenya’s Crude Pipeline: Through People to Market (November 2018)
The Report analyses potential legal, Social and Economic Challenges to the development of the Lokichar- Lamu Heated Crude Oil Pipeline Kenya’s Crude Pipeline: “Through People to Market” (November 2018) This report seeks to analyse the key impediments to the development…
KCSPOG Press Statement on Early Oil Pilot Scheme Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA)
On the 3 of June 2018, President Uhuru Kenyatta flagged off trucks carrying oil from Lokichar to Mombasa to mark the onset of the Early Oil Pilot Scheme (EOPS). The EOPS is a scheme that is ostensibly meant to ensure…
Total Purchases Maersk Oil: Great Opportunity or Delays for Kenyan Project?
Maersk Oil made headlines last week through the decision by its parent company, Danish conglomerate A.P Moller-Maersk, to sell off to Total in a $7.45 Billion deal. The repercussions sent ripples across the oil and gas industry and may have…
KCSPOG welcomes new U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Rules
The adoption of the new rules for resource extraction companies by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) are a welcome initiative and will prove to be a boon for organisations like the Kenya Civil Society Platform on Oil and…