Tapping the Groningen gas field, which is being wound down due to a series of earthquakes, should be a 'last resort', a Dutch minister said on Tuesday, after a government advisory body recommended using the field to help fill gas stores.
A worker looks on as they rebuild homes in the northern Dutch town of Overschild, where earthquakes from natural gas extraction have made them unsafe, in Netherlands March 10, 2022. REUTERS/Anthony DeutschAMSTERDAM, June 7 - Tapping the Groningen gas field, which is being wound down due to a series of earthquakes, should be a "last resort", a Dutch minister said on Tuesday, after a government advisory body recommended using the field to help fill gas stores.
The Mines Council, an independent advisory body, said in a letter to the Dutch government that its current target of filling gas storages to 80% was inadequate."The goal should be to fill the storages to the maximum, not to the European minimum," it said. However, Hans Viljbrief, a junior economic affairs minister, said that idea was not realistic given other advisory bodies had pointed to the threat the earthquakes pose to human health.
The government is counting on additional liquefied natural gas imports, imports from Norway, and a national energy saving campaign to replace Russian gas by year-end.
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