Big break for big oil, larger burden for taxpayers

By Aaron Mehta

Whistleblowers help recover half-billion in energy revenues - but billions more owed taxpayers on public lands use

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Did taxpayers lose on deal for oil field?

By Josey Ballenger, Nathaniel Heller and Knut Royce

Obama administration signals higher gas royalties on public lands — and anticipated industry resistance

By Evan Bush

Re-named offshore energy agency urged to publish production data

By Linsey Isaacs

Interior Department still struggling to collect oil and gas revenues in aftermath of Gulf spill

By Laurel Adams

Excerpts from this story referencing "Papua New Guinea":

"… less revenue than all but 11. Among countries with more effective systems: Papua New Guinea, Vietnam and Norway.The problems have their roots in the process itself. E …"

Marketing the new 'Dogs of War'

By Duncan Campbell

Sri Lankans hire Tim Spicer, a man already involved in global mercenary activities

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Former Blackwater employees accuse security contractor of defrauding government

By Nick Schwellenbach and Carol D. Leonnig

Privatizing combat, the new world order

By Laura Peterson

Windfalls of war: Pentagon's competition for contracts abysmal compared to other agencies

By Sharon Weinberger

Outsourcing the Pentagon

By Larry Makinson

Excerpts from this story referencing "oil fields":

"… They were offering the inducement of stakes in some of the world's biggest oil fields. Among the 200 oil executives who smelled fresh money in the Baghdad air, …"

The big pong down under

By Bill Birnbauer

Less than two years after turning control over to a privatized firm, Adelaide took on a certain stench

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Cholera and the age of the water barons

By Bill Marsden

Metered to death

By Jacques Pauw

Low rates, needed repairs lure 'big water' to Uncle Sam's plumbing

By Erika Hobbs

A half century later, another warning in Eisenhower address rings true

By Bill Buzenberg

Excerpts from this story referencing "Papua New Guinea":

"… eir Australia-based joint venture for contracts in Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Vietnam, India, the Philippines, certain provinces of China, a …"