Is the American chemical company 3M silent about the PFOS pollution in Zwijndrecht? That is what Zuhal Demir, Flemish Minister of Environment and Energy, wonders. In the same interview on Radio 1 she calls the energy policy in our country ‘cunt’.
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A measure for nothing, says Demir the session of 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.”
A remarkable passage in the interview was also when Demir talked about energy policy in our country. About the files of four gas-fired power stations that she will have to judge this autumn, for example. ‘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…?’
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