Bart van Damme
Maasvlakte
Maasvlakte, Rotterdam industrial area, South-Holland the Netherlands.
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© 2015 Bart van Damme
The GDF Suez Onyx Power coal plant [DHV Architects] is one of two recently built coal plants on the Maasvlakte.
A recent court ruling forced the Netherlands to reduce CO2 emissions by 2020 by at least 25%. Now the government is heading for just 17%. Urgenda [an organization for sustainability and innovation] had filed the lawsuit, arguing that the government has a duty of care to the citizens and therefore has to do everything to prevent an environmental disaster. The judge ruled in favour of Urgenda.
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Today (30 November, 2021) on the news: this coal-fired power station (one of biggest polluters of the Netherlands, build in 2015) will be closed, maybe as soon as within the next two months. Necessary for NL to be able to live up to the Paris Agreements. There's three more coal fired power stations to go.
Maasvlakte
Maasvlakte, Rotterdam industrial area, South-Holland the Netherlands.
facebook | website | maasvlakte book 2014 | portfolio book
© 2015 Bart van Damme
The GDF Suez Onyx Power coal plant [DHV Architects] is one of two recently built coal plants on the Maasvlakte.
A recent court ruling forced the Netherlands to reduce CO2 emissions by 2020 by at least 25%. Now the government is heading for just 17%. Urgenda [an organization for sustainability and innovation] had filed the lawsuit, arguing that the government has a duty of care to the citizens and therefore has to do everything to prevent an environmental disaster. The judge ruled in favour of Urgenda.
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Today (30 November, 2021) on the news: this coal-fired power station (one of biggest polluters of the Netherlands, build in 2015) will be closed, maybe as soon as within the next two months. Necessary for NL to be able to live up to the Paris Agreements. There's three more coal fired power stations to go.