Moerdijk Council Backs Plan to Give up the Village for Industry - DutchNews.nl
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The garden village of Kerensheide was an enclave of miners and civil servants, built by the State Mines. In the 1970s, like Moerdijk today, it had to make way for encroaching industrial development. Residents were bought out and houses were demolished. "Kerensheide was somewhere in between."
The village of Moerdijk in North Brabant will disappear. The municipal council approved this on Wednesday evening. The plan received 19 votes in favor and 3 against.
The village of Moerdijk in North Brabant will disappear. The municipal council approved this on Wednesday evening. The plan received 19 votes in favor and 3 against.
There are decisions you read and immediately feel: this is simply not right. The plan to demolish historic Moerdijk, a village that may have existed since 967, to create a so-called "power port"—a term for an industrial expansion with heavy energy infrastructure—is one such example. Not because the concept itself is remarkable, but because the consequences are completely disproportionate. An entire village is being forced to disappear due to nat…
Moerdijk City Council votes to dissolve town over residents’ objections
Despite local residents’ vehement objections, the Moerdijk city council has approved the plan to dissolve the village of the same name in order to make way for industrial expansion. “A difficult and painful decision,” Mayor Aart-Jan Moerkerke said, Omroep Brabant reports.
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