**Flemish energy minister Zuhal Demir (N-VA) is to start exploratory talks with her Dutch counterpart Rob Jetten with a view to Flemish-Dutch cooperation on the construction of two new nuclear power plants in the Netherlands. She hopes to arrive at a win-win situation whereby Flanders’ long-term energy supply can be strengthened.**
“Although everyone assumes that the Flemish powers do not get involved in nuclear energy production, nothing prevents Flanders from cooperating with the Dutch government within its powers,” she said. The Flemish Energy and Climate Agency has invested more than 1.5 billion euros in renewable energy, heat networks and renovations in recent years. Co-investment in nuclear energy through the Netherlands is also a possibility,” it echoes.
“From our concern about the energy supply in our country and from the observation that the possible choice of the Dutch government falls on a location near the Flemish border (Borssele, ed.), we will therefore start exploratory talks with the Netherlands about a possible cooperation and/or participation in the Dutch nuclear project. If in this way we can succeed in obtaining a joint low-country energy plan that strengthens the energy supply in Flanders for the future, we should not hesitate,” says Demir.
Demir plans to discuss her proposal around the table with Dutch Climate and Energy Minister Rob Jetten during a bilateral meeting and during the Flemish-Dutch summit at the end of January.
That sounds good, actually. I mean, if there is one country where we are already entangled with on many levels, it’s with The Netherlands.
Reading this, it sounds like she basically wants the Flemish government to buy shares in the construction of dutch nuclear plants, in order to then later be able to demand amounts of its energy go to Flanders
Don’t get you hopes up. With only a proposed production of 1500 MW at best and the old reactor closing in Borssele, almost no production will cross the border. Once again Demir is bamboozling the public.
If only we had a sensible party in charge of energy, we could collaborate to build another 2 for us. Green is selling a lie when they say we can power this country solely on renewables, that’s just not possible because of variable demand.
It sounded like we would collaborate in building them together, spreading the cost. Not one of these fairy tale plans again. Ugh.
Once again, she’s trying to do something that’s not part of her competences.
It’s not her call because nucleair is for the Belgian government not the flemish one.
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**Flemish energy minister Zuhal Demir (N-VA) is to start exploratory talks with her Dutch counterpart Rob Jetten with a view to Flemish-Dutch cooperation on the construction of two new nuclear power plants in the Netherlands. She hopes to arrive at a win-win situation whereby Flanders’ long-term energy supply can be strengthened.**
“Although everyone assumes that the Flemish powers do not get involved in nuclear energy production, nothing prevents Flanders from cooperating with the Dutch government within its powers,” she said. The Flemish Energy and Climate Agency has invested more than 1.5 billion euros in renewable energy, heat networks and renovations in recent years. Co-investment in nuclear energy through the Netherlands is also a possibility,” it echoes.
“From our concern about the energy supply in our country and from the observation that the possible choice of the Dutch government falls on a location near the Flemish border (Borssele, ed.), we will therefore start exploratory talks with the Netherlands about a possible cooperation and/or participation in the Dutch nuclear project. If in this way we can succeed in obtaining a joint low-country energy plan that strengthens the energy supply in Flanders for the future, we should not hesitate,” says Demir.
Demir plans to discuss her proposal around the table with Dutch Climate and Energy Minister Rob Jetten during a bilateral meeting and during the Flemish-Dutch summit at the end of January.
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That sounds good, actually. I mean, if there is one country where we are already entangled with on many levels, it’s with The Netherlands.
Reading this, it sounds like she basically wants the Flemish government to buy shares in the construction of dutch nuclear plants, in order to then later be able to demand amounts of its energy go to Flanders
Don’t get you hopes up. With only a proposed production of 1500 MW at best and the old reactor closing in Borssele, almost no production will cross the border. Once again Demir is bamboozling the public.
If only we had a sensible party in charge of energy, we could collaborate to build another 2 for us. Green is selling a lie when they say we can power this country solely on renewables, that’s just not possible because of variable demand.
It sounded like we would collaborate in building them together, spreading the cost. Not one of these fairy tale plans again. Ugh.
Once again, she’s trying to do something that’s not part of her competences.
It’s not her call because nucleair is for the Belgian government not the flemish one.