The extraction of natural gas from the Groningen field in the North of the Netherlands is causing earthquakes which have damaged thousands of houses and buildings. The gas extraction by the Nederlandse Aardolie Maatschappij (Dutch Petroleum Society, in short: NAM) is therefore getting increasingly controversial.
At Co2ntramine we’ve been covering and researching this issue for years now and published hundreds of articles about it in Dutch. Because of growing interest from all over the world, we’ve made this overview of the situation with the main facts and figures about earthquakes caused by gas production in The Netherlands. Lees “Energy and earthquakes caused by gas production in the Netherlands” verder