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A long-term thing. In the Netherlands decades ago a huge gas reserve was found. And it made us Dutch (and esp. Exxon and Shell) rich. And the region where it wa
by rapnie 2y ago
A long-term thing. In the Netherlands decades ago a huge gas reserve was found. And it made us Dutch (and esp. Exxon and Shell) rich. And the region where it was discovered? The Dutch government left the people in the province of Groningen with billions of earthquake damage, destroyed homes, and a fight of a lifetime to get proper compensation. This has been a huge topic in Dutch politics for some time now, and finally the decision was to close the gas fields to spare further damages to the inhabitants living above them.
- yread 2y agoJust to put things in perspective, there is still ~3 billion m3 of gas (roughly 7 years of EU consumption). And the biggest earthquake was 3.6 on Richter scale (they are pretty shallow though, ~3km). 0 dead, 0 injured. I am pretty sure Russia had a hand in amplifying the concerns of people hit by those earthquakes. edit: when writing about stress for Dutch people, you can also mention the stress caused by not being able to afford heating/reducing heating to 16 deg C