@janrosenow@semoxenaar@RegulatoryAssistanceProject Use has barely declined. But production has collapsed. This is not a good trend to see. It means greater dependency on outside regimes, such as Russia. It's NIMBYism at its worst. In the middle of a war.
It's political suicide to reopen the gasfields in Groningen.
The other place we could get gas from is the Wadden sea, but it's protected nature that would be endangered by the sinking of the ground.
That is not a natural decline curve. That curve is a political decision. Even the residents of Groningen support more extraction even without greater compensation.
@diondokter If you want to keep consuming gas but not producing it, you're a hypocrite.
And if you want to stop being called a hypocrite for doing so, stop being a hypocrite.
If you switch from being a net exporter to a net importer at a time where Russia is blackmailing Europe and profiting hand over fist on gas exports, you're supporting autocracy and ethnic cleansing.
And if you don't want to be called out for that, then stop doing it.
@diondokter And for the record: a 3,1 magnitude earthquake, yet alone the various 2-point-something magnitude quakes, is pathetically small. I live in Iceland; we get earthquakes all the time. You'd be lucky if you even noticed a 3,1 magnitude quake.
@diondokter (Cue a dozen "damage" pictures of the same pre-1900 cafe (part of an 1865 corn mill) that was gutted in a fire in 2003), cause, you know, totally modern construction and maintenance standards there...)
@diondokter The TL/DR: I know you don't want to be judged for this. But you absolutely WILL be judged for this, because what you're doing is boosting Russia in the middle of an invasion of Europe.
@diondokter I guess that means you better keep funding them, because what a brilliant idea it was to fund them war, let alone to keep doing so now, right? :eyeroll: 🤦♀️
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