Extracting oil, burying data

摘要

If Oil, gas and mining firms revealed their payments to governments, cam paigners say, it would be easier to expose bribe-payers-and bribe-takers. Activists rejoiced when they got a provision requir ing firms to publish payments per project included in the ragbag Dodd-Frank cor porate-reform act in 2010. "We thought we had blown up the Death Star," says Ian Gary of Oxfam America, a charity.