The province of Antwerp granted the technology group 3M a perpetual environmental permit last year, without thorough research into environmental effects and without informing the Dutch authorities. 3M is allowed to discharge considerably more harmful PFAS into the Scheldt than a comparable company such as Chemours in the Netherlands today. A lawsuit against the granting of the Antwerp permit is promising, said the Flemish lawyer Isabelle Larmuseau in this newspaper on Saturday.
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The provincial government has called on The Hague to help and urged Flanders to be open. “It is good practice for us to wait for the answer to those letters,” says CDA party leader Hannie Kool. legal instrument. It must be enforced that the license of 3M is revoked. If the Flemish government does not do this itself, we must do it.”
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