Former Finance Minister Onno Ruding: open the gas tap in Groningen again | Inland

According to the CDA-prominent, “this was the last option for the cabinet, but this is an emergency.” According to Ruding, one of the solutions to reduce the billion-dollar deficit that the government is dealing with is to reopen the gas fields in Groningen. “With this you help to reduce the international gas problem and we should also not give Putin the opportunity to become richer from gas revenues.”

According to the former minister, the people of Groningen must be generously compensated if the gas tap is reopened. “It is completely in line with the anti-Putin policy that has been pursued since the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Groningers can count too, times have changed now. And not unimportant: the Minister of Finance will also be happy with the proceeds from gas extraction,” said Ruding.

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