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A proposal by the parliamentary group JA21 to retain the Groningen gas field as an emergency reserve appears unlikely to gain traction in the House of Representatives. Several parties want to maintain previous agreements to keep the gas field closed. This means the plan appears to be off the table before it can be seriously developed further.
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When the point of no return approaches, people always get nervous, and that's exactly what's happening in the House of Representatives regarding the Groningen issue. Support for "NOT filling the gas fields with concrete" is "growing" there, although that growth is currently limited to the Eerdmans-De Vos-Wilders-Markuszower front, and yes, that's not what we'd call a broad spectrum. On the other hand, we now have the Jetten cabinet, which is alr…
The cabinet rejects JA21's plan to legally establish the Groningen gas reserves as a "strategic reserve." "We're not going to keep Groningen open," says Minister of Climate and Green Growth Stientje van Veldhoven.
Should the government decide to restart gas extraction in Groningen, as a strategic reserve, they won't need to ask NAM for it. The Nederlandse Aardolie Maatschappij (Dutch Petroleum Company) sees no role for itself in operating the gas wells. The company stated this in response to the JA21 initiative bill, which stipulates that the Groningen gas wells should be kept in reserve as a strategic reserve.
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