Groen reacts displeased with the statement of Flemish Minister of Environment and Energy Zuhal Demir on Radio 1, this morning. ‘The energy policy in our country sucks’, the N-VA minister had said there.
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“We are very disappointed that a minister reacts with such platitudes to the Belgian federal energy policy,” Staf Aerts said. VRTNWS. Aerts is a Member of Parliament for Green. ‘This, while we need a Flemish minister who will participate in that energy transition. In the end we can only do it together.’
Dossiers gas plants have to go fast
The minister’s statement came after a passage about the files of four gas-fired power stations that she will have to judge this autumn. ‘I don’t want to delay. I have signaled to all agencies that give advice that I want to move quickly. The first file, that of the gas-fired power plant in Dilsem-Stokkem, will be decided in two weeks’ time.’
She plainly called the energy policy in our country ‘cunt’. “It’s just not going well. Aside from all the dogmas and party ideology, let’s hit the reset button and see what energy policy we need. We must start from three principles: affordability, sufficient energy and the effect on the environment. From Flanders, we invest enormously in wind energy, solar energy, and in heat networks. We will continue to do that. But we also have to look at what we should do next: gas-fired power stations, nuclear energy…?’
Not done with 3M
In addition, Demir also returned to the commission of inquiry Friday about the PFOS pollution in the Flemish Parliament. Top guys from 3M skilfully danced around the fuss. “I find it hallucinatory that a company that has been here for years does not give any answers to a parliament inquiry committee, which has a lot of questions,” said Demir on Saturday morning. Radio 1. ‘I’ve had those questions for months too, but I’m noticing the same thing as the MPs. If you then see what kind of non-answers people give there: that gives me the enormous feeling that people are withholding things. I wonder why people don’t want to say certain things. We’re not quite done with 3M yet.”
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