There are currently no measurement results on the possible impact of radiation from the Ventilus project on health. At the latest at the end of April, Minister Brouns had to decide on the environmental permit for the Ventilus project, the high-voltage line that grid operator Elia wants to build to bring electricity from offshore wind turbines to land. There are also many questions about the compensation scheme.
“There are a number of very large companies, whether or not office buildings, that are confronted with a particularly dense presence of cables if Ventilus were to be realized. Power cables almost to the windows. These people hear today that no compensation has been provided for them,” says Flemish Member of Parliament Bart Dochy (CD&V).
“So my question is: how can a Flemish government get those people, those entrepreneurs, but also citizens who are concerned and who were promised to see through the monitoring network the real results of those radiation effects in the environment. And how can those mayors of the municipalities involved who have been promised this, how can they still be looked straight in the eye if this does not happen before a decision is made about this Ventilustroute.”
