According to my information 4 out of 5 student encampments are allowed to stay the night! 🎉 Only Amsterdam was evicted, more about that later. Preview: outside agitators, not Antifa, escalated things. Probably same folks as earlier (nazi hooligans). 💤
"The Dutch Senate on Tuesday approved a law to permanently close the #Groningen gas field, following the government's promise that production will never be resumed to limit seismic risks in the region.
"Gas profits have delivered an estimated 363 billion euros ($385 billion) to the Dutch treasury since production started in the 1960s, while #Shell and #Exxon's profit from #Groningen was around 66 billion euros during that period."
Gas brought the Dutch a higher living standard, financed the Delta Works coastal storm barrier, and made the #Netherlands a poster child for Dutch disease (unlike Norway, they spent it all).
But as the gas bubble underneath #Groningen was depleted, the ground subsided, causing earthquakes that cracked brick homes.
In case you thought colonialism is only done to people in other countries: the government in The Hague ignored the residents' pleas for help, for decades. There was 2800 billion cubic meters of gas in that field, and the guilders (and then the euros) proved too much of a temptation.
Ik neem aan dat alle inwoners van #Groningen zich subiet en definitief voornemen nooit meer op een van deze partijen te stemmen. https://nos.nl/l/2515226
In de Eerste Kamer willen BBB, VVD, PVV en JA21 eerst meer informatie over de leveringszekerheid, voordat ze voor het wetsvoorstel kunnen stemmen waarbij de #gaskraan in #Groningen echt helemaal dicht gaat.
Radschnellwege, Regensensoren an Ampeln, Fahrradstraßen und Fahrradwege – #Groningen macht vor, wie Fahrradfreundlichkeit aussieht. Und das zahlt sich aus: 60% der innerstädtischen Wege werden mit dem #Fahrrad zurückgelegt! 🚲🧡
Your regular reminder that, before they were taken over by cars, the streets of our cities were shared spaces where lovers strolled, children played, and life was lived.
Pause to take a tram ride through #Vienna, in 1906.
Stookalert voor de provincies Groningen, Friesland, Drenthe, Overijssel, Gelderland, Noord-Holland en Flevoland. Door ongunstige weersomstandigheden blijft rook langer hangen. Niet stoken voorkomt verergering van gezondheidsklachten.