State Secretary Hans Vijlbrief is threatening to resign if his proposal to close the Groningen gas field is delayed any longer by the Eerste Kamer, the Dutch Senate. The Cabinet member in charge of mining policy said he will not play politics with the issue.
Groningen residents and politicians are shocked and disappointed by the Eerste Kamer’s decision to postpone a vote on the permanent closure of the gas fields in the province. The BBB, VVD, PVV, JA21, and 50Plus Senators first want more information about the security of gas supply before they vote on permanently stopping gas extraction in Groningen, which has been plagued with gas mining earthquakes for decades.
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The Dutch government has decided to temporarily extract minimal amounts of natural gas from two sites at the Groningen gas field that was closed last year, as a deep freeze is moving into northwest Europe
The Cabinet acted with sufficient care when it decided to keep the Groningen gas field open this year and to extract the minimum amount of gas necessary to keep the installations operational. The Council of State made this ruling on Wednesday in a case brought by the Groninger Bodem Beweging and several locals living in the gas extraction area.