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Video: Energy Transparency

WASHINGTON —U.S. Senator Benjamin L. Cardin (D-MD), Chairman of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (U.S. Helsinki Commission), and Co-Chairman Congressman Alcee L. Hastings (D-FL) released the following Web video today promoting transparency in the energy sector.

Released the same week Iraq announced it would join the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), this video includes U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), a member of the U.S. Helsinki Commission, and experts Ian Gary, senior policy advisor for extractive industries at Oxfam America, and Jonas Moberg, head of secretariat at EITI, speaking about how transparency in oil, gas and mining can empower citizens to hold governments accountable and gain benefit from their countries’ natural resource wealth.

The video explains Senator Cardin’s Energy Security Through Transparency Act (S. 1700), which is co-sponsored by eight Senators, including Helsinki Commissioners Whitehouse (D-RI), and Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS).

VIDEO: “Energy Transparency (EITI)” TRT: 2:45

 

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