MOB also starts enforcement procedures in Drenthe

Mobilization for the Environment (MOB) and the Environment Association, which have enforcement requests in five provinces, are also starting fifty enforcement procedures in Drenthe under the Nature Conservation Act. In this way they want to force the province of Drenthe to take enforcement action against PAS reporters.

With the PAS decision of the Council of State of 29 May 2019, it is established that the companies that could expand without a permit are subject to a permit, the organizations cite. According to the organizations, there are at least 150 companies in Drenthe without a nature permit and the provincial government should make a distinction between what they call 'real and false PAS detectors'. “Many companies have illegally expanded before filing a PAS report.”

Shady math rules
The organizations say that the procedures are "exposing the shadowy calculation rules" on the basis of which the provincial government wants to grant the companies a license." another location," the organizations said in a press release.

Furthermore, according to MOB and Environment, there is a fundamental objection to net metering. "By making private-law emissions trading part of permit decisions, provincial authorities make it impossible for themselves to keep control over nitrogen emissions. In addition, free licensed emissions suddenly acquire a monetary value. It concerns tens of billions of euros. The taxpayer now threatens to have to pay for buying out permits."

According to MOB and Environment, the Drenthe culture is also endangered by not solving Drenthe's natural problems. Cultural performances near nature reserves, such as the presentation of the Pauperparadijs at the Prison Museum in Veenhuizen, are made impossible, according to the organizations.

'Reduce livestock farming by 75%'
MOB and the Environment have already started proceedings in Gelderland, Friesland, Overijssel, North Brabant and Limburg. The main purpose of the enforcement requests is 'to get the nitrogen debate moving again'. "We are not out to specifically hinder these fifty companies," says MOB leader Johan Vollenbroek. According to him, the livestock must shrink significantly: "The Netherlands can only get rid of the nitrogen infarction by reducing nitrogen emissions from the agricultural sector, and especially livestock farming, by 75%. That is hardly possible with technical measures, but also by cutting in the livestock. And the cabinet doesn't dare or want to do that."

Linda van Eekeres

Linda van Eekeres is co-writing editor-in-chief. She mainly focuses on macro-economic developments and the influence of politics on the agricultural sector.

l.vaneekeres@boerenbusiness. Nl

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