by: Arsenio Toledo
(Natural News) Farmers within the Netherlands are susceptible to having their lands seized under the guise of curbing supposedly harmful emissions, and the Dutch government has made it its goal to seize as much as half of the country’s farmland.
The federal government of the Netherlands has just been given the green light by the European Union’s (EU) important executive body to push forward with a farm buyout scheme that can see the country spend 1.5 billion euros ($1.64 billion) in taxpayer money to drastically cut emissions of nitrogen pollution by outright seizing livestock farms. (Related: Relying solely on wind and solar energy requires the TAKEOVER of a lot land in comparison with fossil fuels.)
The ruling coalition of the Netherlands desires to cut the country’s emission of pollutants reminiscent of nitrogen oxide and ammonia by 50 percent nationwide by 2030.
“Seventy percent of Holland is owned by small cow farmers,” noted documentary filmmaker James Patrick in an interview with Alex Newman of The Latest American. “[The government] is proposing to nationalize half of them. So, that’s 35 percent of the landmass of Holland, which is such an enormous story.”
Dutch government to seize and stop all activity on farmlands
The Dutch government’s plan is to scale back nitrogen deposits in areas designated by the EU as “vulnerable nature,” and these designated lands mostly affect livestock farms.
European Commissioner for Competition Margrethe Vestager said in a press release that the programs approved within the Netherlands would clear the best way for the “voluntary closure” of farms answerable for nitrogen emissions. The EU has designated as much as 3,000 farms nationwide that the Dutch government can “voluntarily” buy out.
To achieve the federal government’s goal of shrinking the country’s emissions by 50 percent in the subsequent seven years, as much as half of those designated farms may should be seized.
Once the Dutch government purchases and takes away these designated farms, its goal is to halt all work on those farms to forestall them from emitting an excessive amount of nitrogen.
“The schemes will improve the environmental conditions in those areas and can promote a more sustainable and environmentally friendly production within the livestock sector, without unduly distorting competition,” claimed Vestager.
Dutch pro-farmer organization LTO said in a press release that if the buyouts will occur, then they have to exclusively be voluntary and should be designed in such a way that they really offer farmers who voluntarily hand over their land the chance to stay comfortable for the remainder of their lives from the cash provided to them by the sale.
LTO also called for compromise “transition schemes” that may allow farmers to proceed operating in such a way that they voluntarily reduce nitrogen emissions using agricultural innovations or switching to other less polluting activities.
“That is the one way farmers could make informed and well-considered decisions about their futures,” said LTO.
Last 12 months, Dutch agricultural exports were value an estimated 122.3 billion euros ($134 billion), or around 12 to 13 percent of the country’s GDP. Shutting down as much as half of all farm activity within the Netherlands wouldn’t only do nothing to enhance the environment, but it surely would also devastate the nation’s economy and food supply, not to say the livelihoods of the 1000’s of Dutch individuals who make a living working in agriculture.
Learn more in regards to the dangerous policies being proposed to combat so-called climate change at GreenTyranny.news and ClimateAlarmism.news.
Watch this video from The Latest American as Alex Newman interviews documentary filmmaker James Patrick about how the farmer land seizure is only a cover-up to transfer more land to the elites.
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