Posted on 11/29/2022 8:42:14 AM PST by Twotone
The Dutch government plans to buy and close down up to 3,000 farms near environmentally sensitive areas to comply with EU nature preservation rules.
The Netherlands is attempting to cut down its nitrogen pollution and will push ahead with compulsory purchases if not enough farms take up the offer voluntarily.
Farmers will be offered a deal “well over” the worth of the farm, according to the government plan that is targeting the closure of 2,000 to 3,000 farms or other major polluting businesses.
Earlier leaked versions of the plan put the figure at 120 per cent of the farm’s value but that figure has not yet been confirmed by ministers.
“There is no better offer coming,” Christianne van der Wal, nitrogen minister, told MPs on Friday. She said compulsory purchases would be made with “pain in the heart”, if necessary.
The Netherlands needs to reduce its emissions to comply with EU conservation rules and agriculture is responsible for almost half the nitrogen emitted in the proud farming nation.
The Dutch environment agency has warned that native species are disappearing faster in the Netherlands than in the rest of Europe and that biodiversity is under threat.
But the new plan looks set to reignite tensions with farmers over nitrogen reduction.
Dutch farmers have staged mass protests, burnt hay bales, dumped manure on highways and picketed ministers' houses over the last three years.
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Strikes me they are long overdue for Nethxit.
Leftists destroying a precarious food supply and jobs in favor of Gaia. Total insanity but totally expected. They’ve gone after health care, energy and now food. There isn’t much left for them to destroy.
There are only about 12,000 farms in Netherlands - so they are seeking to forcibly close 25% of all farms, for now. Expect more regularly until extinction event occurs.
Earlier leaked versions of the plan put the figure at 120 per cent of the farm’s value
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With inflation, their value is rising higher and faster than that puny 120%.
Maybe some enterprising entrepreneur will produce EV boxcars.
When families lose livelihood and/or begin to starve... maybe they will wake up.
They are doing the same to Dutch farmers in S.Africa. They are planning on completing the genocide against the white Afrikaaners, there, and in Europe.
Maybe Satan know something about these people that history doesn’t? They are the people of Israel, who are not of the tribe of Judah who hog all the PR.
Lots of food taken off the market to help the goal of increased food prices and increased world hunger. Its for the Children ... the surviving Children of the very rich and connected.
Maybe it is time to “group fund” shipments of small arms and ammo to the country? Our country would do as much for EU, and does. Why not give the farmers and people the tools they need to survive?
Wish I could take Eddie Van Halen’s guitars and Alex Van Halen’s drum sets and beat the shit out of the EU. What douches.
Populaton reduction by starvation. Nederland is Europe’s truck garden.
As I think about this, the Netherlands is a leader in hydroponics. So, this could be big agriculture shutting down the small family farms.
Good luck making the special lenses and mirrors without electricity.
Solar don't work since the glass needs special temperature gradients and programmable rates of cooling over several days.
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