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Green Gone Wild: Dutch Government Demands 'Compulsory Purchase' of 3,000 Farms to Comply With EU Environmental Rules
PJ Media ^ | 11/29/2022 | Rick Moran

Posted on 11/29/2022 11:56:30 AM PST by SeekAndFind

Seventy-one percent of the earth’s atmosphere is made up of nitrogen, but we’re told that too much of it can be very, very bad. So the Nitrogen Minister of the Netherlands (yes, that’s a real job), Christianne van der Wal, is spearheading a government effort to drastically reduce nitrogen emitted by too much greenery — especially on very productive farms — and especially close to “environmentally sensitive” areas.

Farmers in the Netherlands have been at war with the government over nitrogen emissions ever since the government announced that there would be a 50% reduction in nitrogen emissions by 2050. Dairy farmers are especially hard hit because waste from the 1.6 million dairy cows in the Netherlands is the largest contributor to nitrogen “pollution.”

“My livelihood and my network is being threatened,” said Ben Apeldoorn, whose farm has about 120 cows producing milk for making cheese. “You’re just no longer allowed to exist,” he told the New York Times.

But it’s all to save the planet, don’t ya know?

“There is no better offer coming,” Nitrogen Minister van der Wal told MPs on Friday. She said compulsory purchases would be made with “pain in the heart,” if necessary.

In other words, take it or leave it, plebes.

The Telegraph:

Farmers’ lobby group LTO Nederland said trust in the government “has been very low for a long time”. It accused the Government of drafting “restrictions without perspective”.

Sjaak van der Tak, chairman of LTO, said: “Of course it is positive that a good voluntary stop scheme is being promised. But the stayers who are central to us will have many additional restrictions imposed.”

Agractie, another farmers’ organisation, said the voluntary closure scheme was welcome but must not be applied with the threat of compulsory purchase.


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KEYWORDS: eu; farms; holland; netherlands
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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....

Government tries to cut down on nitrogen pollution in a move set to reignite tensions with farmers who say the industry is unfairly targeted
1 posted on 11/29/2022 11:56:30 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

They can buy farm products from Russia. Sounds like a good deal comrade


2 posted on 11/29/2022 11:57:12 AM PST by ncfool (TRUMP SHOULD BE THE KING MAKER IN 2024 AND NOT THE KING. -- Desantis 2024)
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To: SeekAndFind

They can buy farm products from Russia. Sounds like a good deal comrade


3 posted on 11/29/2022 11:57:35 AM PST by ncfool (TRUMP SHOULD BE THE KING MAKER IN 2024 AND NOT THE KING. -- Desantis 2024)
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To: SeekAndFind

There is a way to end this crap for several generations. Sooner or later its going to happen. The question is in which country does it start?


4 posted on 11/29/2022 11:59:13 AM PST by Tench_Coxe
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To: SeekAndFind

This sounds nuts. You need lots of nitrogen to grow crops. Crops absorb CO2 and deliver oxygen. Which part of science am I missing?


5 posted on 11/29/2022 12:00:28 PM PST by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: SeekAndFind

The ensuing starvation is just a price to pay, for less nitrogen


6 posted on 11/29/2022 12:01:39 PM PST by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare its ? And the ambassador to Ukraineelf)
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To: SeekAndFind

The President of Serbia recently said he doesn’t expect some people to make it through next winter???


7 posted on 11/29/2022 12:01:40 PM PST by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: SeekAndFind
This is the 21st Century, Western version of the 1920s-30s Soviet Russia era of forced collectivization.

Crash the system, starve the people and blame your political opposition for the problems you created so you can persecute them and send to camps or kill them

8 posted on 11/29/2022 12:03:29 PM PST by rdcbn1
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To: Tench_Coxe

The Dutch ate their Prime Minister in the 1500’s. His brother, too. They were selling cuts of their meat for 10 sous a slice in the streets.


9 posted on 11/29/2022 12:04:18 PM PST by quikstrike98 ( )
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To: SeekAndFind

Satan hates humans.


10 posted on 11/29/2022 12:06:00 PM PST by Psalm 73 ("You'll never hear surf music again" - J. Hendrix)
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To: SeekAndFind

Madness 🤯

PURE EVIL.


11 posted on 11/29/2022 12:07:12 PM PST by TianaHighrider (God moved David to STAND UP to Goliath ❣)
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To: SeekAndFind

Oxygen will be next.


12 posted on 11/29/2022 12:07:31 PM PST by Mr Ramsbotham ("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
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To: Tench_Coxe
Sooner or later its going to happen.

Not if the only men left are transgender women.
13 posted on 11/29/2022 12:08:25 PM PST by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I believe they are targeting the farmers with cows.


14 posted on 11/29/2022 12:09:13 PM PST by Tommy Revolts
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To: Tench_Coxe

>The question is in which country does it start?

Could be China.


15 posted on 11/29/2022 12:09:45 PM PST by fretzer
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To: Tench_Coxe
"[I]n which country does it start?"

Do a search for 'Madagascar uprising'.

You'll see roughly 85% of the images have been deleted, through censorship I believe is the only reasonable presumption.

Call it an information blackout by those who don't want us to see it.


16 posted on 11/29/2022 12:11:45 PM PST by rx
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To: SeekAndFind

Nitrogen Minister? WTH? The world has gone stark raving mad.


17 posted on 11/29/2022 12:14:23 PM PST by Shady (The #JihadJunta: "We are now a nation of Men, Not of Laws. You are not as equal as we are...")
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To: SeekAndFind

Idiocracy, coming to a theater near you.

Prepare accordingly.

5.56mm


18 posted on 11/29/2022 12:14:36 PM PST by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho got to go)
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To: monkeyshine
Which part of science am I missing?

The science of culling the human herd. Or is it an art?

19 posted on 11/29/2022 12:15:54 PM PST by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: SeekAndFind

Farms which will then be resold at a discount to billionaires NwOers and communist mafia politicians….


20 posted on 11/29/2022 12:19:00 PM PST by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security in hates:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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