DutchNews, February 24, 2023
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| This cafe in Zeerijp has been shored up for years. Photo: Graham Dockery |
Mines minister Hans Vijlbrief has described the
findings of the parliamentary inquiry set up to look into problems caused by
the exploitation of a massive gas field under Groningen as ‘extremely serious’.
‘
If you read the facts one after another, it takes your breath away,’ he told reporters after the report’s presentation. ‘I feel shame more than anything
else, and that means we have to do something.’
The highly damning report said
that the state and oil firms had a ‘debt of honour’ to the people of Groningen,
whose interests were continually subordinated to that of earning money.
More
than 1,600 quakes of up to 3.6 on the Richter scale have hit the province since
1986, damaging tens of thousands of homes, but it took until 2018 for the
government to start winding down gas production.
Prime minister Mark Rutte said
in a short statement that ‘what began at the end of the 1950s as something
wonderful ended up in a nightmare for the people of Groningen. ‘Hopefully we
can do something to win back their trust,’ he said. ‘The report does justice to
the Groningers and the cabinet must do that too.’
The cabinet will issue a
formal reaction at a later date.
Oil companies
Shell and ExxonMobil, who
jointly own the gas exploration company NAM, have described the report as an
‘important milestone’ which needs to be studied closely.
Both were criticised
in the report alongside the government for failing to take the concerns of
locals seriously and for putting profit above people. ‘
The people of Groningen
carried a great deal of the disadvantages of the gas extraction but only a few
of the benefits,’ Shell Nederland president Marjan van Loon said in a reaction.
The companies involved in gas extraction, including Shell, did not listen to
the people of Groningen properly when they expressed their concerns about the
damage to their homes and the safety risks, she said. ‘As a company, we have
important lessons to learn.’
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