The corporations and individuals profiteering from fossil fuel use and those who stand profit from a transition to renewable energy.
An Open Secrets report raises the alarm about the way in which oil companies do business. Yet in South Africa, these companies have had a steadfast champion in mining minister Gwede Mantashe.
Open Secrets’ Head Investigator Michael Marchant joins Clarence Ford on ‘Views and News with Clarence Ford’ to uncover how corporations are pushing for expansion and profits, despite fierce resistance.
In the Corporations and Economic Crime Report: The Oil and Gas Majors, we expose Shell, TotalEnergies, and Impact Oil and Gas—three industry giants determined to expand their oil and gas operations in South Africa, despite strong resistance from local communities.
Explore the key players profiting from the climate crisis and renewable energy transition with Open Secrets’ interactive tool, the PowerMapper. This tool highlights private actors driving South Africa’s coal, gas, oil, and renewable energy sectors, based on our report Who Has the Power? South Africa’s Energy Profiteers
Register here to join Open Secrets and Currency for the launch of Open Secrets’ new report: The Corporations and Economic Crime Report Vol. 4: The Oil and Gas Majors.
In the fourth episode of the African Climate Alliance Podcast’s Cancel Coal season, Zen Mathe and Michael Marchant from Open Secrets uncover the power and money dynamics within South Africa’s energy landscape as well as the lessons that can be learned for achieving an equitable and just energy transition.
Open Secrets and the Access to Information Coalition for the Energy Sector (ATIC) submitted a crucial report to the UN Special Rapporteur for Climate Change.
Hantu | Megan Mannion African coastlines are the newest commodity up for grabs and those involved in the latest scramble are not unfamiliar faces. International corporations such as CGG (UK) and TotalEnergies (France) are among the fifteen other foreign companies vying for the right to seismic test and/or drill for oil and gas along the…
Sharing their experiences of living in the shadows of Mpumalanga’s coal mines and power stations, community members and activists said that the health impacts of coal use are vastly understated and not widely understood on all levels.
State-owned company PetroSA used to produce diesel and other fuels from gas at its refinery in Mossel Bay. But in 2020, it ran out of gas… and money. Two decades of woeful investments, scandals, absence of governance, and profligacy had rendered the company bankrupt. But Minerals and Energy Minister, Gwede Mantashe, has refused to let…