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27 comments on Dutch government acknowledges peak gas
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I wonder how this admission of scarcity will effect other European country's energy policies along with the price and regulation of the resource, not to mention the EU's stance toward Iran?
You don't know the Netherlands' government at all. No way in hell that they will actually do something about it. They cower to every minority intrest that there is. They've actully nearly canceled a wind farm because of "horizon pollution".
Their plan of action is in the article btw :
"closer relations with natural gas producers"
In other words ... not doing anything about their dependance at all (save a few token projects offshore no doubt).
The netherlands is utterly dependant on power from Belgium (90% orso nuclear) and Germany (also mostly nuclear). They don't have any real home grown generating capacity.
So they'll do what they've always done. Suck up to a bigger fish than they and hope nothing goes wrong. And when it does ... sjah.
But remember that as bad as the Netherlands are, the UK is in
line behind them for energy supplies.
Britain to loose 40% of electricity generation capacity in 6 years ...
On top of that, however, we shall also have to shut down nine more major power stations – six coal-fired, three oil-fired – forced to close” ...
www.carbonrationing.org.uk/fora/threads/britain-to-loose-40-of-electrici...
@TomC
Your response is not based on fact. The Netherlands has 7 coal power plants, 30 gas power plants, 1 nuclear power plant, dozens of onshore windparks and 2 offshore windparks.so THEY HAVE LOTS OF HOME GROWN GENERATING CAPACITY! Only 10%-15% of electricity is imported. The Netherlands is only slighlty dependent on power from Western Europe (mainly france/germany).
Please get your facts straight.