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Farmers driving tractors are blocking highways in the Netherlands in the latest protest sparked by a government pledge to rein in pollution emissions.

Comment concilier une agriculture performante, rentable et innovante, mais très intensive, avec la préservation des ressources naturelles, la transition écologique et les exigences croissantes de la société ? Tel est le défi des Pays-Bas, où nous sommes de passage dans le cadre de notre traversée de l'Europe et de son agriculture. Voyons comment Peter, agriculteur dans ce pays, y parvient.

Chinese companies are to be excluded from taking part in tenders to operate key parts of the national electricity grid because of the potential risk to national security, energy minister Rob Jetten has said in answer to MPs questions. Changes in legislation governing electricity provision will ensure that grid operator Tennet, which is 100% state-owned, will be able to stop any participation in contracts by companies which are considered to be risky. 

Aux Pays-Bas, des agriculteurs ont manifesté ce mercredi 22 juin contre le projet du gouvernement de réduire drastiquement le cheptel néerlandais. 

The Netherlands government unveiled mandate reductions of up to 70% of nitrogen oxides in many places and 95% in other areas to protect nature.

More than half of the electricity produced in the Netherlands in the past week was generated from sustainable sources. As a result, the Netherlands broke another sustainability record this spring, the Volkskrant reports.

European countries are scrambling to find alternative sources of natural gas, as Russia demands payment in rubles. Gas could be flowing from a project in the North Sea in less than two years.

C’est un énorme projet à près d’un milliard d’euros qu’est en train de lancer le Syndicat des eaux d’Ile-de-France. Présidé par André Santini, maire d’Issy-les-Moulineaux et regroupant 135 communes franciliennes, le Sedif alimente plus de 4 millions d’habitants d’Ile-de-France en eau potable. Et dans son plan d’investissement 2022-2031, il prévoit d’intégrer le procédé de l’Osmose inverse basse pression (OIBP) à ses trois usines de Choisy-le-Roi, Méry-sur-Oise et Neuilly-sur-Marne.

Les maires des villes concernées devront «mettre la pédale douce sur le développement [urbain]», a prévenu le préfet de la MRC Brome-Missisquoi.

Le gouvernement néerlandais est de nouveau confronté à un important mouvement d’agriculteurs en colère.

Nature and nitrogen minister Christianne van der Wal has told MPs she has no option but to take action to reduce nitrogen compound pollution because of its impact on vulnerable habitats. Van der Wal outlined her plans two weeks ago, which ‘unavoidably’ include the compulsory closure of some farms near reserves, prompting a mass protest by farmers earlier this week. Speaking during a heated debate on the government’s strategy, Van der Wal said that more would become clear abou

Ministers and MPs have condemned comments by radical farmers leader Mark van den Oever, in which he said it ‘could happen’ that many more farmers turned up at the home of nature minister Christianne van der Wal, and describing her children as ‘pussies’ for being scared. 

The government of the Netherlands has disclosed the tendering timelines and locations for eight new offshore wind projects with a combined capacity of up to 12.7 GW.

The amount of nitrogen compound pollution in some parts of the Netherlands will have to be cut by 70% to 80% to comply with a Dutch court ruling, the NRC reported on Friday. Sources in The Hague told the paper that the government’s strategy to take a regional approach to the issue will lead to major problems in parts of Gelderland and Noord-Brabant, where livestock farming is concentrated and a number of vulnerable habitats are being seriously damaged. T

Dutch exports to Ukraine and Russia fell sharply in March, following the Russian invasion, figures from national statistics agency CBS show. In March, exports to Ukraine fell by €97 million or 84% and to Russia by €453 million or 67%, the CBS said. However, imports from Russia rose 115% in financial terms to €4.1 billion, largely because of soaring energy prices. Fuel accounted for €1.7 billion of the increase, while metals such as nickel, aluminium and copper, which hav

Watergen is an Israeli company that makes machines that generate water from air.

La start-up Air Company crée un nouveau type de vodka à partir d'eau et de dioxyde de carbone, en utilisant l'électrolyse pour obtenir de l'éthanol.

Precision irrigation offers growers stability and control in the face of an increasingly unpredictable climate and can sustain coffee farmers for years