European millions for the switch to sustainable energy, an angry cinema owner who flushes beer down the gutter and hard conclusions about the policy on gas extraction. In De week van Drenthe we look back at the main points of last week’s news.
On Monday, EU Commissioner Elisa Ferreira (Cohesion and Reforms) will travel to the Northern Netherlands to discuss a European fund of 600 million euros, intended for making companies more sustainable. In Brussels, 600 million euros is available for adapting business processes, but also for further training, so that new sustainable techniques can be used.
More than half, 330 million, will go to the Northern Netherlands, 66 million will end up in Emmen and the surrounding area.
In mid-March, staff from dozens of hospitals in the Netherlands will go on strike, and employees from the Wilhelmina Hospital Assen and Isala in Meppel will in any case also participate, it appears on Tuesday. The CNV trade union expects that action will also be taken at the Treant hospitals in Emmen and Hoogeveen.
The hospitals will run Sunday shifts, the unions want to enforce a better collective labor agreement for more than 200,000 employees in hospitals and rehabilitation centers.
To the horror of cinema owner Albert Jan Vos, Heineken is still investing in Russia, despite the promise not to do so anymore because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. That is why Heineken is no longer available in the cinemas in Meppel and Steenwijk.
“Heineken is a company that presented a billion-dollar profit last week with much fanfare,” he says. “And that on the back of others. I find it embarrassing, I’m really angry.”
The Public Prosecution Service demanded a year and a half in prison against a 20-year-old man from Dwingeloo on Thursday for causing a fatal accident near Havelte in April last year. He crawled behind the wheel with a drink and drove too fast, after a steering error, the car crashed into a tree on Osseweidenweg.
A 16-year-old girl and a 21-year-old man were killed, the other occupants were injured. The court will rule in the case on March 9.
For years, money was much more important than the safety of residents in the gas extraction area, concludes the parliamentary committee of inquiry that led the investigation into natural gas extraction in Groningen. In addition to a big slap on the fingers of politicians, recommendations were also made.
Claims handling must be milder, easier and more humane. The inhabitants of North Drenthe, who also suffered damage, can hold on to that.