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MOB wants a completely new start with nitrogen approach
Environmental organization MOB wants to get rid of the existing nitrogen legislation and take other, also non-statutory measures to tackle environmental and climate problems. Even the farmers of the Farmers Defense Force are open to this, according to MOB, which presented its vision in a meeting with Ministers Staghouwer (LNV) and Van der Wal (Nature and Nitrogen) on Tuesday.
According to MOB, the government will not make it with the Nitrogen Reduction and Nature Improvement Act (Wsn). The organization refers to the many court rulings that have undermined its effectiveness. Earlier, Overijssel's commissioner of the king Andries Heidema spoke have already expressed doubts about this law.
According to Johan Vollenbroek of MOB, it can be established that the previous cabinet did not resolve the nitrogen dossier, but rather deepened the problems. MOB itself will not make those problems any less, because the environmental club and advisory organization still has various lawsuits pending. Vollenbroek: "A Wild West situation has arisen with lively trade in licensed nitrogen emissions, in which LNV and the provinces are eager to cooperate." MOB means the licenses granted to the RWE coal-fired power station in Groningen, Olam in Zaandam and SABIC in North Brabant. According to Vollenbroek, Noord-Brabant, for example, has committed fraud with non-existent nitrogen emissions from a long-decommissioned unit Amer 8.
Social contract as a solution
As a solution, MOB proposes a new 'social contract', a kind of deal between an environmental organization and politicians that should ensure an integrated approach to environmental and climate problems. The organization has a special approach in store for the agricultural sector. For example, a substantial reduction in meat production and consumption must be achieved in consultation with the sector. According to MOB, the livestock must also be further reduced, ammonia emissions must be reduced and soy imports must be reduced.
Klaas van der Horst
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