Maarten Camps, a former top civil servant at the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate, twice pressured independent supervisor Theodor Kockelkoren of the State Supervision on Mines (SodM) to postpone the publication of its advice on how many homes in the Groningen earthquake zone need to be strengthened. That is remarkable because the SodM’s independent advisory task is legally protected, NRC reports.
Several politicians in the Netherlands cried foul on Wednesday after it emerged that former Infrastructure Minister Cora van Nieuwenhuizen continued to participate in high-level meetings despite securing a job as a lobbyist for the energy sector. The VVD politician sat on the Ministerial Committee on Climate and Energy, and left her job as a minister in 2021 after spending four years on the Cabinet to conclude her 27-year political career.
A member of the Dutch House of Representatives filed a Freedom of Information (FOI) request for documents that we now know tie the Dutch government to the World Economic Forum (WEF) and its infamous “Great Reset” agenda. The country hosted a Global Co-ordination Secretariat (GCS) event for the worldwide network of “Food Innovation Hubs,” meaning […]
Denmark is on pole to build the first artificial energy island in the North Sea, but other nations are looking at the radical option to enable massive offshore
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