OilPrice.com ByĀ Charles Kennedy
Residents in the Groningen area in the Netherlands have voiced their anger at a plan by the Dutch government to potentially double this year production from the Groningen gas field, which has been hit by earthquakes in the past.
The Dutch governmentĀ saidĀ on Thursday that it might need more gas to be pumped at Groningen, once Europeās biggest gas field, which the Netherlands has pledged to phase out this decade after frequent earthquakes in the past damaged homes in the area.
After years of debates and measures to curb production at the field, the Dutch government decided in 2018 that output at GroningenĀ would be terminated by 2030, with a reduction by two-thirds until 2021-2022 and another cut after that. The authorities had already limited production from the field because of the earthquakes, but they decided in 2018 that the risks and costs were no longer acceptable…
