Posted on 12/18/2019 8:20:57 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
AMSTERDAM - Dutch farmers and construction workers blocked roads with tractors on Wednesday and gathered outside the offices of national broadcaster NOS in the latest of a series of protests over environmental pollution rules.
The protests began after a court ruling in May found the Netherlands in violation of EU rules on “reactive nitrogen” pollution, sparking a political debate over how to respond.
Farms are a major source of excess nitrogen, along with the construction and transport industries, and farmers feel they are being unfairly singled out.
Convoys of tractors and scattered demonstrations disrupted rush hour traffic on major motorways across the country.
One tractor carried a banner saying “no farmers, no food”, echoing their central argument.
Dozens of tractors gathered outside the “media park” in the city of Hilversum, the country’s main broadcasting hub. Farmers are “written off” in the media as useless and dependent on subsidies, said one unidentified spokesman.
“We’re not looking for more money or a better contract, but for more respect and fewer rules,” he said.
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First they came for the carbon and then they came for the nitrogen. The simplest most common of things are turned into threats that we all must fight against or be punished for not believing.
Duexit
Neexit
Hoexit
Gotta work their way up before they start charging for Oxygen consumption credits.
Don’t let the little Swedish Nazi hear that...
When Britain joined the Common Market, we were forced to buy French diary products (subsidising French dairy farmers) instead of home grown - being obliged to abandon our own national Milk Marketing Board and cull our dairy herds. I suspect that the real motive is that if/when BREXIT happens, Britain will no longer be under any obligation to buy French milk and the French are looking to the Dutch to fill the void in demand.
Interesting.
This will not end well for the ruling classes of Europe.
Wondering how long before they get gunned down by the Soviet style commie fascist overlords for their fighting back. Lesson to learn here in America, don’t give up your guns.
Maybe she could lie down in the middle of the highway in protest.
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