Last year, GroenLinks, D66 and PvdA submitted a motion to reduce the nuisance caused by wood burning in the Drenthe capital by providing a scrap premium for stoves and a subsidy for emission-reducing filters. The Municipal Executive of Assen presented the city council last week with two detailed options for doing this: a more expensive variant (260,000 euros) with subsidies and workshops as proposed in the motion, but also a cheaper variant (35,000 euros) with only information. The cluttered discussion about this ultimately led to neither proposal being successful and the hand remaining on the cut.